Thaddeus Q. PROCTOR is the proprietor of a
well-equipped mercantile establishment at Buncombe, and conducts a
profitable business at that point. Tennessee is his native State, and
he was born June 3, 1856. His father, James PROCTOR, was born in the
same State, was reared on a farm, and made it his home until the fall
of 1860, when he came to Illinois. He bought and settled on land in
Union County, ten miles northeast of Anna, and engaged in farming there
for some ten years. In 1870 he came to Johnson County, purchased land
near Goreville, and there spent his remaining days, dying in 1882, and
leaving behind him a worthy life record. His wife was also a native of
Tennessee, her name before marriage being Frances J. HENLY, and she was
a daughter of Pleasant HENLY. She died in 1881. Four children were
reared by the parents of our subject: Martha, Joel, Mary and Thaddeus.
Thaddeus
Q. PROCTOR was but four years old when he was brought to Illinois by
his parents, and his life has since been spent mostly in this State. He
was well educated in the public schools, and had had some experience in
teaching himself, having had charge of a school in this county one term
and of another in Missouri a like length of time. He resided beneath
the parental roof until he was twenty-one, and then commenced to work
on a farm by the month, and was thus employed until 1886. He was frugal
and industrious, and by that time had money enough to enter the
mercantile business, forming a partnership with his brother J.H. at
Regent, Ill., and continuing with him until 1889, when he sold his
interest in the concern to his brother. He then went into partnership
with W. J. SUIT to carry on a general mercantile business at Buncombe.
In October, 1891, he bought his partner's interest in the
establishment, and has since been in business alone. He carries a large
stock of general merchandise, and by promptness, close attention to
business, and fairness in dealing, he has built up an extensive trade.
He has a kindly, obliging disposition, is conscientious and
straightforward, and is found on the side of right in all that concerns
the religious and social advancement of the community. His political
views are strictly Republican. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church had
in his father a member who was ever active in its service.
In
1889 our subject took an important step in life by his marriage with
Miss Sally SUIT, a native of Missouri, and a daughter of Albert SUIT,
who was born in Kentucky, the mother being a native of Missouri.
Coziness, comfort and a cheerful hospitality abide in the home that
they have established, and a little daughter named Bertie adds to their
happiness.
transcribed by Nan Starjak
Source:
The Biographical Review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin
Counties
Chicago
Biographical Publishing Co., 1893
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