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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Proctor family, circa 1899

Item

Title
Proctor family, circa 1899
Description
"The Proctor family moved to the Town of Wakefield from Maine when Edward Everett Proctor took a job with the newly created Municipal Light Department. The family took up residence on the western part of Chestnut Street. Among family members pictured in the buggy: (back row) Edith Proctor (who later married Henry Miller of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano Company), Hattie Proctor and Grace Otis Proctor. (Front row): Arthur Proctor, Edward Otis Proctor (who later served as Assistant Attorney General under Massachusetts Governor Paul Dever) and Edward Everett Proctor." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 1993
Photo courtesy of Edith Coflan.
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)
D'Onofrio, Jayne M.
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
Date
ca. 1899
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department
Subject
Proctor Family
Carriages and carts
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
1 picture : b&w
Extent
16 x 24 cm.