Proctor, Adeline L. Davis
Dates
- Existence: September 13, 1870-January 4,1945 - 1945-01-04
Biography
Adeline L. (Davis) Proctor was a teacher, civic and religious worker, and an active alumna of Fisk University. She was born September 13, 1870 to Dock and Harriett Davis in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her diploma from Fisk Normal School. She married on August 16, 1893. Her children are Henry Hugh, Jr. Richard Davis, Muriel Morgan, Lillian Steele, Roy Cravath, Vashti Adelaide.
After her marriage, she lived in parsonage of First Congregational Church in Atlanta, Georgia where her husband served as pastor. There, she started a mission which grew into the first public kindergarten. She wrote a pamphlet entitled “Negro Womanhood: Its Present.”
She then moved to Brooklyn, New York after her husband accepted the call to pastor Nazarene Congregational Church. From 1920-1933, she was active in promoting the church’s programs. She died January 4, 1945.