THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
JUNE,  I  goo. 
WILLIAM  PROCTER,  JR. 
MEMORIAL     READ    AT    THE    AMERICAN    PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIA- 
TION MEETING,  MAY,  IOJDO.1 
By  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
This  distinguished  pharmacist  was  born  in  the  city  of  Baltimore, 
May  3,  1817.  His  parental  ancestry  can  be  traced  to  Thomas  Proc- 
ter, the  great-great-grandfather  of  William  Procter,  Jr.,  who  was  an 
officer  in  the  army  under  Oliver  Cromwell.  The  descendants  of 
Thomas  Procter  became  converts  to  the  doctrines  of  George  Fox, 
and  they  are  early  recorded  as  members  of  the  religious  Society  of 
Friends.  Isaac  Procter,  who  was  the  father  of  William  Procter,  Jr., 
and  a  most  exemplary  man,  was  encouraged,  through  the  advice  of 
his  friend,  Lindley  Murray,  the  grammarian,  to  emigrate  to  America, 
and,  after  due  deliberation,  he  determined  to  make  America  his 
future  home.  He  arrived  on  the  ship  "William  Penn,"  in  Sep- 
tember, 1793,  but,  owing  to  the  prevalence  of  yellow  fever  in  Phila- 
delphia at  that  time,  the  ship  was  not  allowed  to  come  up  to  the 
1  The  historical  information  and  other  facts  recorded  in  this  memorial  were 
obtained  from  the  files  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  other  jour- 
nals, and  from  the  members  of  Professor  Procter's  family.  Personal  remin- 
iscences also  form  a  part. 
[A  portrait  of  Prof.  Procter  as  he  was  better  known,  perhaps,  to  most  of  the 
older  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  appeared  in  the 
Proc.  A.  Ph.  A.,  1874,  Vol.  XXII,  and  American  Journae  of  Pharmacy, 
1874,  p.  512.  The  accompanying  frontispiece  is  taken  from  the  oil  painting  in 
the  museum  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — Editor.] 
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