Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-09-29

Fletcher Dutton Proctor was born in
the village of Proctorsville, town of
CaVendish, Nov. I, 1860, son of the late
United States Senator Redfield and En-
lily j. Dutton) Proctor. His great
grandfather. Leonard Proctor, was the
founder of Proctorsville Fletcher Proc
tor attended Rutland military institute,
Middlebury high school and Amherst
college, graduating from the latter insti-
tuition ip 1882. Upon graduation he be-
came connected with the marble bust
ness carried on by his father. He learn
ed the trade of a machinist and gained
an intimate knowledge of the marble in
dustry as a worker in all its depart
ments. He became superintendent of the
Vermont Marble company in 1885, and
succeeded his father as president when
the latter entered Presidents Harrison's
cabinet as secretary of war in 1889. He
continued in that position up to the
time of his death, a period of % years.
In 1889 the company employed 100 to
1900 men. Under Mr.. Proctor's manage
ment the business of the company was
greatly expanded, and it now employs
1000 hands in its various plants in Proc
tor. West Rutland and Rutland. 1t has
branches in Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia, Cleveland, Chicago, st. Louis
and San Francisco, and in all but one
of these cities operates mills and shops.
The Vermont Marble company is the
/ largest producer and manufacturer of
marble in the world, shipping nearly
1000 o tons of its products yearly to all
parts of the globe. Mr.. Proctor was
also president of the Clarendon & Pitts
ford Railroad company, which operates a
railway connecting the different quar-
ries, mills and shops with each other
and with the Delaware & Hudson rail
road. He was also a director of the Ma
tional Life Insurance company of Mont
pelier, president of the Vermont For
estry association, a director of the Rut-
land Railroad company and of the New
England Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany. Middlebury college and Norwich
university conferred upon Mr.. Proctor
the degree of LID. He was a trustee
of both these institutions.
From the days of his young manhood
Fletcher Dutton Proctor had part anG
varying responsibilities in public affairs
He served as selectman in Rutland and
in the town of Proctor, and upon the
school board of Proctor since 1883. II,
represented Proctor in the legislatures OF
1890, 1900 and 1904, being speaker in 1901
and chairman of the ways and mean.
committee in 1904. In the session o
1892 ne was a senator from Rutland
county. In 1906, under conditions tina
tested the Republican party's candidate
more than any previous candidate hat
Dtbl ltSlCu, ne was IlhlllIiidllll tltCltA
governor of Vermont.
During his term as governor, 1906
1908, most of the progressive movement
that are now features of state polio!
were inaugurated.
Mr.. Proctor was a member of the Yer
mont National Guard, Company A, 1884
1887, filling therein the grades of secon'
and first lieutenant. He was secretar.
of civil and military affairs under Gov
ernor Ebenezer j. Ormsbee, 1SS6-1SSS.
Fletcher d. Proctor married or Ma,
t &c, 1856, Miss Minnie e, Robinson, daugh
ter of the Hon, Asher c. and Erminni
? Robinson of Westford, this state, WIN
: survives. He leaves besides, tire
children, a son and two daughters, EN-
[ lily, Mortimer r., now a student in Yale
{ and Minnie. now in school at Farming
4 ton, Conn. He leaves also an aged moth
e err, a sister, Miss Emily D., Proctor, an
z a brother, Redheld, all of Proctor.