Son of Ellis S. Potter and Mary E. Williams, husband of Eliza T. Williams, whom he married on March 7, 1871 in Brooklyn, NY, and father of Henrietta May, Frank Alfred and Richard Ellis Potter.
Obituary - Patchogue, L.I., May 24, John Alfred Potter, 88, president of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company for the past 39 years and one of Patchogue's outstanding residents, died at his home, 258 Main Street, Thursday evening after a prolonged illness, which took a serious turn about two weeks ago. He was born in New York on July 3, 1841, the son of the late Ellis S. and Mary E. Potter.
After attending the public schools of New York he entered the firm of Williams & Potter, now R.C. Williams, but in 1881 he came to Patchogue where he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Last year he resigned from the business of Potter & Robinson.
Mr. Potter was known chiefly through his banking interests, having been one of the organizers of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company. The bank was organized in 1884, and in 1891 he became its second president and had been re-elected continuously to the post each year since. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Patchogue Business Men's Club and was active in all local civic matters and served for many years as president of the Board of Education and for a time was leader of the Congregational Church Choir. At one time he was an ardent horseman, but during his later years he was as keenly interested in automobiles.
He leaves one son, Frank A. Potter, cashier of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company; a daughter, Miss Henrietta Potter; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie P. Exton of Chicago and Mrs. William C. Clem of Oradell, N.J. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 in the Congregational Church, the Rev. John Robert Gee officiating, with interment Tuesday morning at 11:30 in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
(Burial Records of Green-Wood Cemetery; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Saturday, May 24, 1930 - Page 6; Suffolk County News (Sayville), Friday, May 30, 1930, Page: 4; Patchogue Advance, Tuesday, May 27, 1930, Page: 1)
Obituary - Patchogue, L.I., May 24, John Alfred Potter, 88, president of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company for the past 39 years and one of Patchogue's outstanding residents, died at his home, 258 Main Street, Thursday evening after a prolonged illness, which took a serious turn about two weeks ago. He was born in New York on July 3, 1841, the son of the late Ellis S. and Mary E. Potter.
After attending the public schools of New York he entered the firm of Williams & Potter, now R.C. Williams, but in 1881 he came to Patchogue where he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Last year he resigned from the business of Potter & Robinson.
Mr. Potter was known chiefly through his banking interests, having been one of the organizers of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company. The bank was organized in 1884, and in 1891 he became its second president and had been re-elected continuously to the post each year since. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Patchogue Business Men's Club and was active in all local civic matters and served for many years as president of the Board of Education and for a time was leader of the Congregational Church Choir. At one time he was an ardent horseman, but during his later years he was as keenly interested in automobiles.
He leaves one son, Frank A. Potter, cashier of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company; a daughter, Miss Henrietta Potter; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie P. Exton of Chicago and Mrs. William C. Clem of Oradell, N.J. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 in the Congregational Church, the Rev. John Robert Gee officiating, with interment Tuesday morning at 11:30 in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
(Burial Records of Green-Wood Cemetery; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Saturday, May 24, 1930 - Page 6; Suffolk County News (Sayville), Friday, May 30, 1930, Page: 4; Patchogue Advance, Tuesday, May 27, 1930, Page: 1)
Son of Ellis S. Potter and Mary E. Williams, husband of Eliza T. Williams, whom he married on March 7, 1871 in Brooklyn, NY, and father of Henrietta May, Frank Alfred and Richard Ellis Potter.
Obituary - Patchogue, L.I., May 24, John Alfred Potter, 88, president of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company for the past 39 years and one of Patchogue's outstanding residents, died at his home, 258 Main Street, Thursday evening after a prolonged illness, which took a serious turn about two weeks ago. He was born in New York on July 3, 1841, the son of the late Ellis S. and Mary E. Potter.
After attending the public schools of New York he entered the firm of Williams & Potter, now R.C. Williams, but in 1881 he came to Patchogue where he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Last year he resigned from the business of Potter & Robinson.
Mr. Potter was known chiefly through his banking interests, having been one of the organizers of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company. The bank was organized in 1884, and in 1891 he became its second president and had been re-elected continuously to the post each year since. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Patchogue Business Men's Club and was active in all local civic matters and served for many years as president of the Board of Education and for a time was leader of the Congregational Church Choir. At one time he was an ardent horseman, but during his later years he was as keenly interested in automobiles.
He leaves one son, Frank A. Potter, cashier of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company; a daughter, Miss Henrietta Potter; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie P. Exton of Chicago and Mrs. William C. Clem of Oradell, N.J. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 in the Congregational Church, the Rev. John Robert Gee officiating, with interment Tuesday morning at 11:30 in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
(Burial Records of Green-Wood Cemetery; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Saturday, May 24, 1930 - Page 6; Suffolk County News (Sayville), Friday, May 30, 1930, Page: 4; Patchogue Advance, Tuesday, May 27, 1930, Page: 1)
Obituary - Patchogue, L.I., May 24, John Alfred Potter, 88, president of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company for the past 39 years and one of Patchogue's outstanding residents, died at his home, 258 Main Street, Thursday evening after a prolonged illness, which took a serious turn about two weeks ago. He was born in New York on July 3, 1841, the son of the late Ellis S. and Mary E. Potter.
After attending the public schools of New York he entered the firm of Williams & Potter, now R.C. Williams, but in 1881 he came to Patchogue where he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Last year he resigned from the business of Potter & Robinson.
Mr. Potter was known chiefly through his banking interests, having been one of the organizers of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company. The bank was organized in 1884, and in 1891 he became its second president and had been re-elected continuously to the post each year since. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Patchogue Business Men's Club and was active in all local civic matters and served for many years as president of the Board of Education and for a time was leader of the Congregational Church Choir. At one time he was an ardent horseman, but during his later years he was as keenly interested in automobiles.
He leaves one son, Frank A. Potter, cashier of the Patchogue Bank and Trust Company; a daughter, Miss Henrietta Potter; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie P. Exton of Chicago and Mrs. William C. Clem of Oradell, N.J. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 in the Congregational Church, the Rev. John Robert Gee officiating, with interment Tuesday morning at 11:30 in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
(Burial Records of Green-Wood Cemetery; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Saturday, May 24, 1930 - Page 6; Suffolk County News (Sayville), Friday, May 30, 1930, Page: 4; Patchogue Advance, Tuesday, May 27, 1930, Page: 1)
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