Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Barren County.

THE PROCTER FAMILY.  At Glasgow Junction, Barren Co. Ky., and Grand
Avenue Cave, Edmonson County, reside four of the Procter family,
descendants of old Virginia stock. The eldest, Notley L., was born in
Orange County, VA., June 20, 1796, and is now in his ninetieth year, and
but for a fall he received six years ago he would be as hale and hearty
as a man of forty.  He is a bachelor of the ancient order, and for the
last thirty years he has made his home principally with his brother,
Larkin J., and now resides with him at Grand Avenue Cave.  They are the
children of Abram B. and Polly (Lurty) Procter, who immigrated to
Kentucky from Virginia in the year 1798, and settled near Washington,
Mason County.  Abram was the youngest son of George Procter, who died in
Orange County, Va., at the advanced age of ninety-six years, and George
was the son of John, who emigrated from Wales to Virginia in 1682, and
died at the advanced age of one hundred and four.  The young stock seems
to have inherited the longevity and robust health of their ancestors.
Of the ten children born to Abram and wife five are still living;
Notley, aged (as stated) ninety; Mrs. Fanny D. Stevenson, resides at
Glasgow Junction, aged eighty-five years; Maj. George M., also at
Glasgow Junction, aged seventy-five; William M., of Hendricks County,
Ind., aged seventy, and Larkin J., the youngest, aged sixty-four.  Their
mother, Polly, was the daughter of Capt. John Lurty, who served in the
Virginia navy during the war of the Revolution, and who furnished to the
State a revenue cutter called the "Two Pollies," and named for his
daughter, Mrs. Proctor, and her mother, whose maiden name was Polly
Brough.  Notley was brought from Virginia to Kentucky in 1798, when two
years old, in his mother's lap on horseback, at a time when the
mountains of West Virginia were the home of the wild beast and the
hunting grounds of the Indians. After reaching manhood Notley was an
enterprising, industrious man, and always respected.  In 1825 he
attached himself to the Christian Church established by Alexander
Campbell, and has ever been a faithful and zealous member of the church,
and a man of strong and positive convictions, yet at the same time is
liberal in his intercourse with other Christian denomination.  He
retains well his faculities on all subjects, and on no subject more than
God's word.  When a boy he lived near to and was well acquainted with
Simon Kenton, Timothy Downing and Adam Poe, the pioneers of eastern
Kentucky; he has lived to see the great changes and the advancement of
the human family, and is now standing as a link between the past and the
present, and is consoled in the declining years of his life with the
thought and faith that he will finally realize the improvement of the
"Better Land," as reserved for faithful service in this.  Maj. George M.
Procter, of Glasgow Junction, Ky., is seventy-five years old.  When in
his fifteenth year he entered the dry goods house of his kinsman, John
M. Morton, Maysville, Ky., and about 1830 became a member of the firm of
Morton & Procter, who did an extensive business in Maysville for many
years.  In 1844 he went East and engaged in the mercantile business,
first in Philadelphia; afterward in New York until 1854-55, when he
returned to Kentucky.  Maj. Procter has been twice married; first to
Maria L. Young, daughter of Willoughby T. and Lucy (Shackleford) Young,
all of Mason County, Ky., by whom he had two children:  a daughter,
Lucy, and John R., the present geologist of the State of Kentucky.  Mrs.
Procter died in June, 1846.  She was a member of the Christian Church;
was baptized by John T. Johnson (brother of Vice-President R. M.
Johnson).  Maj. Procter's second marriage was November 30, 1852, to Mrs
Maria L Bell, a daughter of Frank Gorin and Maria (Underwood) Gorin of
Glasgow, Ky.  three children were born to this union:  Eugene U., Louisa
G. and Mary Lurty.  Mrs. Maria L Procter died in June, 1865.  She was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Maj. Proctor has always been
an active and influential citizen, honored and respected by all who knew
him.  In politics he was formerly a Whig, and cast his first
presidential vote for Gen. Harrison.  For many years he has voted the
Democratic ticket and is now a member of that party.  Maj. Procter, on
returning to Kentucky in 1854-55, took charge of the celebrated "Bell
Tavern" and farm, now Glasgow Junction - the property of his second
wife, and which he successfully managed until the breaking out of the
Rebellion, when he cast his lot with the boys in gray, and was one of
the last to succumb to the overpowering strength of the North and the
fate of battles; and although a zealous and uncompromising friend of the
South during the struggle, yet when the contest was ovr he yielded to
the inevitable, and now phychologically believes that Providence and
fate intended the result to be as it is, and that the result will
finally redound to the common glory of our country.  Maj. Procter
returned to Glasgow Junction and engaged in the hotel business one year.
In 1874 he organized the Glasgow Junction Lithographic Stone Company
with a capitol of $250,000.  This company paid out for labor, etc., $300
per week for some length of time, when it was determined by the stock
holders that it was not as good as they supposed it to be at first, when
the work was suspended, since which time he has been engaged in various
branches - the Scandinavian Immigration Company being the last of any
importance.  Larkin J. Procter is sixty-four years old, the youngest of
a family of ten children, and the brother of N. L. and Maj. G. M.
Procter.  He is a self-made man, having been educted at a common school
in eastern Kentucky, but being early impressed with the idea of making
his mark in some way, at the age of fourteen he entered the mercantile
house of his brother, Maj. G. M. Procter, in the city of Maysville, as a
store boy, and shortly thereafter procured some elementary law books and
commenced the study of law in 1839.  When in his nineteenth year he
procured a license and opened a law office in Maysville in 1840.  He
early entered politics, and being a Whig took the stump for Harrison in
1840 for President; he removed to the adjoining county of Lewis in 1843;
in 1845 he was elected to represent Lewis County in the lower branch of
the Legislature; in 1848 he was elected as a delegate to the convention
that framed the present constitution of the State, not having at that
period attained the age of twenty-six years; he was the youngest man in
the convention.  He took an active part in the debates where there were
such men as James Guthrie, Charles Wickliffe, Archy Dixon, and Ben
Hardin ("the Old Kitchen-knife," as John Randolph called him upon one
occasion), all of whom have long since passed from the field of action.
In 1853 Mr. Procter removed to Philadelphia and engaged in mercantile
pursuits.  In 1856 he removed to Kentucky and leased the Mammoth Cave,
which he successfully kept until 1861.  The civil war coming on,
although his sympathies were with the South, he opposed secession, and
was prevailed upon to make the race for the Legislature from the
counties of Edmonson and Butler; he was elected.  After the close of the
war, he again leased the Mammoth Cave from 1866 to 1871, since which
time he has stubbornly refused to engage in politics, but has devoted
his time to the practice of law, farming and dealing in real estate, and
now owns the celebrated Grand Avenue Cave, where he makes his home,
improving and beautifying the grounds, etc.  The cave is situated three
miles from Glasgow Junction, in the direction of Mammoth Cave.  Mr.
Procter was married, in Clarksburg, Lewis County, to Mary E. Roberts.
They lived together forty years until her death, which occurred at
Glasgow Junction, in February, 1885. They had six children, only one of
whom survives - Dr. D. L. Procter, of Mount Sterling, Ky.

Bell Brough Campbell Dixon Downing Gorin Guthrie Hardin Harrison Johnson Kenton
Lurty Morton Poe Proctor Randolph Roberts Shackelford Stevenson Underwood
Wickliffe Young
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