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PROCTER. PROCTER. 4Q3 Moon Island, outside the harbor of Boston, all the sewage of the city and the district lying south of Charles River. The mag- nificent buildings for the high and Latin schools were also erected through the influ- ence of Mr. Prince. In 1885, Mr. Prince was nominated by the Democrats as governor of the State. He was defeated upon a strictly party vote, and in 1888 was appointed to the board having exclusive control of the construc- tion of the new building of the Boston public library. To this work he is now giving his entire attention, and with this exception he has retired from both profes- sional and public life, after making for himself an honorable name in the one, and in the other a record alike successful and meritorious. PROCTER, FRANCIS, eldest son of Captain Francis Epes and Ann (Allen) Procter, was born in Gloucester, Essex county, March 16, 1833. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. His father died in 1846, leaving him, at the age of thirteen, with two younger brothers, the support of his widowed mother, who shortly after lost her eyesight. Borrowing the capital of one dollar with which to start business, he purchased thirty-three copies of the " Flag of Our Union," published by F. Gleason, of Boston, and entered upon his career that has since embraced every department of printing, publishing, book, stationery, wall-paper, fancy-goods, and a general newspaper business. Early in business life he took his only brother, George H. Procter, into partner- ship, his youngest brother, William A., having died in 1848. In July, 1853, he started a monthly paper, which was circu- lated free, and afterwards changed to a subscription semi-monthly paper — "The Gloucester Advertiser." In 1856, in com- pany with his brother, the "Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser" was started, which is still published. In 18S8 the Procter broth- ers began the publication of a one-cent evening paper — "The Gloucester Daily Times" — still published. They also con- duct the Cape Ann Xews Company, a branch book and stationery store, which was established in 1884, and the Procter Circulating Library, established by Francis Procter in 1851. Mr. Procter has always taken an active and influential part in public matters and enterprises for the growth and welfare of his native city, notably the development of what is known as Bellevue Heights. Mr. Procter was married in Marlbor- ough, March 15, 1856, to Mary Melissa, daughter of Solomon and Mary H. Perkins Rice, of that town. His children by that marriage are : Frank Rice, George Per- kins (deceased), William Allen, and Mary M. Procter. Mr. Procter was a delegate to the first Free Soil state convention, at Worcester ; was an auditor of town accounts in 1861, and alderman of the city of Gloucester (ward 4) 1876, besides filling other minor offices. He has always been a Repub- lican, excepting in the Greeley campaign of 1872. He attended the state convention. FRANCIS PROCTER of that year, and was a member of the con- ference committee of the two parties that nominated Charles Sumner for governor. He is a prominent Mason — secretary of Tyrian Lodge two years ; was chairman of the parish committee of the Independent Christian church (the oldest Universalist church in America) from 1SS3 to '89, and a director in the Gloucester Electric Com- pany ; is president of the Willoughby Park Land Association, secretary and treasurer of the Wolf Hill Land Company, and was a member of the Gloucester Artillery Com- pany 1S5 r to '56. He was one of the prime movers in or- ganizing the Massachusetts Press Associa-