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Edna Dean Proctor

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Edna Dean Proctor

Birth
Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
18 Dec 1923 (aged 94)
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Author, poet. Daughter of John & Lucinda (Gould) Proctor. Her life's professions included a teacher in Woodstock CT, a governess in Brooklyn NY, a poet, and a teacher in Framingham MA. Beginning in the 1850s she contributed frequent articles and poems to various national papers and periodicals. She died at the age of 95, leaving several bequests. Beginning in the 1850s she contributed frequent articles and poems to various national papers and periodicals.

While living in S. Framingham she had belonged to the Boston Authors’ Club and was considered a part of literary Boston. She was described as “a charming woman of great beauty and a winning friendliness of manner.”

She never married. No children.
Author, poet. Daughter of John & Lucinda (Gould) Proctor. Her life's professions included a teacher in Woodstock CT, a governess in Brooklyn NY, a poet, and a teacher in Framingham MA. Beginning in the 1850s she contributed frequent articles and poems to various national papers and periodicals. She died at the age of 95, leaving several bequests. Beginning in the 1850s she contributed frequent articles and poems to various national papers and periodicals.

While living in S. Framingham she had belonged to the Boston Authors’ Club and was considered a part of literary Boston. She was described as “a charming woman of great beauty and a winning friendliness of manner.”

She never married. No children.

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EDNA DEAN PROCTOR
Daughter of
JOHN & LUCINDA
GOULD PROCTOR
Born in Henniker N.H.
Sept 18, 1829
Died in Framingham Mass.
Dec. 18, 1923



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