George Alphy Proctor’s name doesn’t have the same familiar ring as that of Jared Sydney Torrance, wealthy founder of the city of Torrance. But every burgeoning community needs enthusiastic boosters like Proctor to help get it up and running in its early days. Proctor was born in Vale, Iowa, on June 16, 1880, to JohnContinue reading “Torrance’s first mayor helped lead the city through its incorporation process in 1921”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
