Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-16

The family Of Secretary and Mrs. Window
consists of three accomplished and gifted chill
dren. Their eldest, WIN. ID. Window. who is
twenty-nine years of age. is an architect. re-
siding in Boston. Ellen Hatch Window. Just
turning twenty. has great skill in music She
was educated at the finest schools in Boston.
Florence Il. Window. closing her teens. I'm
1shed at Pennington Conn. and will make her
debut next season. She Is n remarkably fine
artist, her work in drawing and painting indi-
eating both genius and skill The daughters
will join their mother in few DAYS
During the closing years of his former public
career at Washington Mr.. Window erected
spacious mansion on Scott circle in one of the
most attractive and fashionable quarters of the
city. About year ago he sold this fine prop
erty to Mr.. Mum. retired merchant of Chi
cagO. The Secretary will secure before the
next season an attractive home. where Nrs.
Window may entertain with all the elegance of
former times. supplemented by the presence of
her two gifted daughters.
SECRETARY OF WAR.
When the balloting for the nomination of a
candidate for President of the United States
began in the republican national convention at
Chicago last June. the name of the state of YER
mont having been called. man OF tall and mus
cular physique arose in place and proclaimed:
The state of Vermont casts eight votes for
Benjamin Harrison" At that time Senator
Sherman was the most probable. and James g..
calculations of the convention man
ayers. At every ballot the voice of
heGneij Proctor. chairman of the delegation.
proclaimed the devotion of Vermont to the dis
tinguished son of Indiana. The whole country
applauded the recognition of the fidelity of the
Green Mountain state when her own eminent
citizen once her chief magistrate. was elevated
to the dignity of Secretary for the Department
of War. Secretary Proctor Is a Selt-made man.
His own career is an ample tribute to his sue
cess as the architect of a distinguished and use
full life. Politically he is the leader of the re-
publican party of his state The magnificent
grand staircase and architectural terrace. which
adOrn the western approach to the national
capitol the admiration of cultured taste and
the theme of jibes of congressional dema-
gogues are constructed from the output of the
marble edded hills of Proctor and Rutland
owned and operated by the Minister of War.
MRS. PROCTOR.
In 1853 Miss Emily Dutton. native of the
village of Cavendish. celebrated for its quar-
ries of serpentine, became the wife of Redfield
Proctor. then about making his start in life
The ancestors OF both were among the earliest
colonists of Massachusetts bay. and were among
the pioneers of the rugged regions which dip
in the direction of Lake ChampIain. Mrs
PrOctOrs father was lawyer. a state legislator
a state judge. and man OF high repute. She
was carefully educated at the best schools i'll
New Hampshire and Massachusetts, The Young
people had not particularly encouraging pros
poets. but through the untirinG industry and
enterprise of the husband and the thrift and
wise management of the wife, the one built up
a large fortune and the other raised a family
of sons and daughters which are the pride OF
both.
Their eldest child. Mrs. Arabelld G. Holden.
Is the wife of prosperous merchant of San
Francisco.
Fletcher d. Proctor. whose wife was Miss
Robinson. one of the most attractive Young
of \nP lNg atom -I.l..
large family estate near Rutland, and has
charge of his fathers business. which is the
control of the entire product of the vast marble
quarrying industry of Vermont.
younger daughter, Miss Emily d. Proctor.
Is receiving instruction under governess. and
the youngest child. Redtield Proctor. jr., now
ten years of age. promises to follow in the
footsteps of his distinguished father.
The Proctor estate embraces one of the
largest and finest farms east of the Alleghanies.
and can boast of one of the finest tlocks of
MerinO sheep in the world.
Mrs. Proctor has been IL California on visit
to her eldest daughter. She is expected to
reach Washington i'll ten days. when the Secre-
tary will confer with his wife upon the all-im-
pOrtant topic of a Washington establishment
suitable to the official and social duties of
member of the administration.
FAMILY OF THE ATToRNEY-GENERAL
The chief of the law-advising department
of the executive, native of Oneida, the
county of classic names in New York, not
only bears the patronymic of the grandfather,
but has been associated professionally for fif-
teen years with the present head of the supreme
executive. His career l. also linked with the
late chief of the judicial branch of the govern
ment having studied his profession i'll the Office
of Morrison Il. Waite. His name has never
been associated with public Office his social
life has therefore been passed amid the less
conspicuous surroundings of private citizens
home.
MRS. MILLER.
The lady who has presided over the domestic
circle of the Attorney-General before she became
Mrs. Miller was Gertrude \. Bunce, daughter
of sydney A. Bunce. of Clinton. also in fair
Oneida. Her father. i'll his younger life. was "A
farmer. but later became banker and was
prominent as q politcian IN that county of