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Wallace  Procter. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      August,  1911. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion in  1874,  and  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical 
Association  in  1881.  He  contributed  many  papers  to  the  various 
pharmaceutical  organizations  and  journals.  Like  his  father  he 
accepted  service  in  many  capacities  where  the  sole  reward  was  the 
simple  satisfaction  of  doing  good  and  advancing  the  interests  of 
pharmacy. 
Wallace  Procter  married  Susan  Ridgeway  Shreve,  of  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Mount  Holly  was 
the  summer  home  of  Prof.  William  Procter,  and  Wallace  greatly 
enjoyed  the  freedom  of  a  life  in  the  open  air,  amid  congenial  sur- 
roundings of  fruit  trees,  grape  vines,  and  the  sights  and  sounds  of 
rural  life.  It  was  here  that  he  met  the  maiden  who  was  to  become 
his  wife,  and  who  still  survives  him. 
Three  daughters  remain  to  cheer  their  mother — Edith  Harrison, 
Marian  Grigg,  and  Margaretta  Lippincott. 
This  simple  record  of  the  life  work  of  Wallace  Procter  gives 
but  a  faint  idea  of  his  achievements.  He  possessed  an  excellent 
mind,  developed  by  education  and  environment.  In  the  latter  years 
of  his  life  he  gave  much  time  to  books.  He  was  an  omnivorous 
reader,  and  all  branches  of  pharmacy  claimed  his  attention. 
His  admiration  for  his  father  and  the  great  mission  which  the 
latter  fulfilled  were  ever  before  him ;  and,  while  he  did  not  inherit 
the  love  for  original  investigation  which  dominated  Prof.  Procter's 
personality,  Wallace  had  an  analytical  mind  and  never  trusted  to 
surface  indications.  The  son  practised  what  the  father  taught,  and 
added  knowledge  fitted  for  his  time  and  generation. 
When  he  transferred  his  activities  from  Philadelphia  to  Wheel- 
ing, his  quiet  unobtrusive  manner  and  his  genial  qualities  soon 
endeared  him  to  a  host  of  friends.  Further  acquaintance  added  to 
his  popularity,  and  the  Ohio  Valley  Drug  Company  sent  Wallace 
Procter  to  the  State  association  meetings  as  their  representative,  and 
he  became  one  of  the  most  valued  members  of  the  Virginia  Pharma- 
ceutical Association. 
On  May  9,  191 1,  he  sufifered  a  stroke  of  paralysis.  His  physi- 
cians, realizing  that  his  condition  was  serious,  recommended  a 
return  to  his  native  city ;  and  upon  the  arrival  of  his  wife,  the 
sad  journey  from  the  hospital,  at  Wheeling,  to  Philadelphia  was 
accomplished  ;  and  though  under  distressing  circumstances,  it  was 
cheered  by  the  reflection  that  his  friends  turned  out  en  masse  at 
the  home  and  in  the  railroad  station,  and  did  everything  in  their 
