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Potter, John Fox – Pottier, Auguste

Potter, John Fox

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born May 11, 1817, in Augusta, Maine. He was a representative in the legislature of Wisconsin in 1856; and was a judge of Walworth county from 1842 to 1846. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-fifth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861; and was appointed consul-general to British North America at Montreal.

Potter, Ludlow Day

clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 3, 1823, in New Providence, N. J. This eminent clergyman of the presbyterian church was for ten years professor in Glendale Female college, Ohio; and since 1865 has been its president.

Potter, Orlando Bronson

lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born March 10, 1823, in Charlemont, Mass. He matured and laid before Secretary Chase of the United States treasury, and President Lincoln, a plan for a national banking system; this plan was adopted, with a few slight modifications, and was the basis of the present national banking system of the country. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortyeighth congress as a union democrat. He died Jan. 2, 1894.

Potter, Platt

lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 6, 1800, in Galway, N. Y. He was a jurist of Schenectady, and the author of Potter's Dwarris; Treatise on Corporations; and Equity Jurisprudence. He died in 1891.

Potter, Pleasant J

banker, philanthropist, was born March 29, 1820, in Warren county, Ky. He has served as a member of the Kentucky legislature. He is president of the old banking house of P.

J. Potter and Company. He has been a liberal contributor to churches and schools; and Potter college for young ladies was named in his honor.

Potter, Robert

lawyer, state legislator, congressman. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1826; was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1829 to 1831; and was a second time in the legislature. He was killed in Texas.

Potter, Robert B

soldier, was born July 16, 1829, in Schenectady, N.

Y. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of brigadier and majorgeneral of volunteers. He died Feb. 18, 1887, in Newport, R. I.

Potter, Samuel John

state senator, was born June 29, 1739, in Kingston, R. I. He was at one time deputy governor; and in 1792 and 1796 was a presidential elector. He was a senator in congress from Rhode Island during the years 1803 and 1804. He died Sept. 6, 1808, in Washington, D. C.

Potter, William Bleecker

mining engineer, was born March 23, 1846, in Schenectady, N. Y. In 1871 he was called to the chair of mining and metallurgy at Washington university, St. Louis, Mo. In 1888 he was elected president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.

Potter, William James

clergyman, author, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of New Bedford for many years, prominent as a radical thinker; and the author of Twenty-Five Sermons of Twenty-Five Years; and Lectures and Sermons. He died in 1894.

Potter, William W

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1839. He died Oct. 28, 1839, in Bellefonte, Pa.

Pottier, Auguste

decorator, was born in 1823, in France. He has a large business in New York under the firm name of Pottier and Stymus, decorators and designers, which has proved to be a success.