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CAPT. POTTER DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS MOUNTAIN CABIN
Colorado Springs, Aug. 7
Ashton Potter, formerly a captain of cavalry in the U. S. Army, club member, and society leader, died suddenly Thursday afternoon at the Potter cabin on the slope of Cheyenne mountain just above his palatial Broadmoor home, of heart disease and gastritis.
Aspen Democrat-Times
August 7, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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ASHTON POTTER IS DEAD
Colorado Springs.
Ashton Potter, millionaire clubman, bon vivant, and globe trotter, is dead.
Fairplay Flume
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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POTTER'S WIDOW CRITICALLY ILL
Colorado Springs.
So seriously ill was Mrs. Ashton Potter that she was unable to attend the funeral of her husband, who died in their cabin on Cheyenne mountain. The funeral was private and the body was placed in the receiving vault at Evergreen Cemetery. The condition of Mrs. Potter, who has been an invalid for several years, is causing grave concern to her friends. The funeral services were held at El Bomar, the palatial bungalow of the Potters at the foot of Cheyenne mountain.
Summit County Journal & Breckenridge Bulletin
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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DAN CUPID FINALLY WON
Judge Signed Divorce Decree and Bridegroom Was Free to Marry.
DEPEW-POTTER NUPTIALS
Colorado Springs
April 12.
Cupid finally overcame the law's delays tonight, when Mrs. Grace Goodyear Depew and Captain Ashton Potter were married at the residence of the bride in this city, after two days of anxious waiting for the bridegroom's final decree of divorce to be signed in San Francisco, where the former Mrs. Potter secured an interlocutory decree on April 10, 1909.
Through an oversight, the Interlocutory decree was not entered on the county records until April 12, 1909, and as the statutes of California forbid the issuance of a final decree in less than twelve months from the date upon which the Interlocutory decree has been recorded, today was the first upon which the marriage could be legally solemnized. In the meantime, ignorant of the delay in recording the interlocutory decree, Mrs. Depew and Captain Potter had arranged to be married on Monday, believing the year would be up on that day. Failure to receive the news that the final decree had been granted upset their plans and there followed two days of anxious waiting in which the wires to San Francisco were kept hot in an investigation into the cause of the delay.
This morning Judge Graham signed the final decree in San Francisco, and at 6:30 this evening the wedding took place at thee bride's handsome home at Broadmoor, a fashionable suburb of this city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Adna N. Moore, pastor of the Second Congregational church, and the only witnesses to the marriage were Clarence C. Hamlin of this city, the attorney who represented Mrs. Depew in her divorce proceedings, and Mr. and Mrs. Jay B. Lippincott of Colorado Springs and Phuiladelphia. Immediately after the ceremony Mr, and Mrs. Potter left for New York, whence they will sail for Europe.
Owing to the social prominence of both the bride and groom, the interrupted wedding plans have attracted much interest. Mrs. Potter is the daughter of the late Robert Goodyear, a multi-millionaire manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Y. from whom she inherited a fortune estimated at $12, 000,000. Her former husband, Granson Depew of Buffalo is a nephew of Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York.
Captain Potter, who was until recently of the United States army, is a nephew of the late Bishop Potter of New York.
The couple met in Switzerland about three years ago when Captain Potter was traveling with his first wife who was Miss Mary Louise McNutt, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. McNutt, prominent in San Francisco society. Shortly afterwards, Captain Potter returned to this country, coming direct to Colorado Springs, while his wife returned to her parents in California. A few months later Mrs. Depew took up her residence here. She obtained a divorce from her husband in January 1909 in this city. Mrs. Potter divorced her husband on the grounds of desertion the following April in San Francisco.
Herald Democrat
April 14, 1910
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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United States Passport Application: 41999
STATE OF COLORADO
COUNTY OF EL PASO
I, Ashton Howard Potter, A NATIVE AND LOYAL CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, do hereby apply to the Department of State at Washington for a passport for Ashton Howard Potter born at N.Y. N.Y. on the 25th day of Dec. 1870 and I do solemnly swear that I was born at N.Y. in the State of N.Y. on or about the 25th day 1870 that my father was a native citizen of the United States; that I am domiciled in the United States, my permanent residence being at Colo. Spgs. in the state of CO where I follow the occupation of ___________ (blank); I am about to go abroad temporarily and that I intend to return to the United States April or May 1911.
Name Ashton Howard Potter
Event Type Passport Application
Event Date 1911
Currennt Address: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Event Place El Paso County, Colorado
Gender Male
Birth Date 25 Dec 1870
Birthplace New York
Certificate Number 41999
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE:
Further, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. SO HELP ME GOD.
Sworn to before me this 30th day of Dec. 1910. (Signed by notary public.)
SIGNED: Ashton Howard Potter.
DESCRITION OF APPLICANT:
Age: 40
Stature: 5 feet 11 3/4 inches, Eng.
Forehead: Straight
Eyes: Hazel
Nose: Straight
Mouth: Straight
Chin: Straight
Hair: Gray
Complexion: Florid
Face: Round
IDENTIFICATION:
Dec. 30th, 1910. I Hereby Certify, that I know the above named Ashton Howard Potter, personally, and know hiim to be a native-born citizen of the United States, and that the facts stated in his affidavit are true to the best o9f my knowledge and belief.
Signed: Victor W. [William] Hungerford
Address: 1707 Wood Ave.
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Applicant desires possport sent to following addres:
El Pomar, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Stamped as Issued: Jan 6, 1911 by Bureau of Citizenship, Dept. of State
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Penrose House History
The original one-story estate was built as a single-family residence in 1910 for Ashton Potter and Grace Goodyear Potter. They called it El Pomar because it was built on land that once belonged to the Dixon apple orchard. El Pomar is spanish for orchard. The Potters did not live there long before both passed away.
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CAPT. POTTER DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS MOUNTAIN CABIN
Colorado Springs, Aug. 7
Ashton Potter, formerly a captain of cavalry in the U. S. Army, club member, and society leader, died suddenly Thursday afternoon at the Potter cabin on the slope of Cheyenne mountain just above his palatial Broadmoor home, of heart disease and gastritis.
Aspen Democrat-Times
August 7, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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ASHTON POTTER IS DEAD
Colorado Springs.
Ashton Potter, millionaire clubman, bon vivant, and globe trotter, is dead.
Fairplay Flume
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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POTTER'S WIDOW CRITICALLY ILL
Colorado Springs.
So seriously ill was Mrs. Ashton Potter that she was unable to attend the funeral of her husband, who died in their cabin on Cheyenne mountain. The funeral was private and the body was placed in the receiving vault at Evergreen Cemetery. The condition of Mrs. Potter, who has been an invalid for several years, is causing grave concern to her friends. The funeral services were held at El Bomar, the palatial bungalow of the Potters at the foot of Cheyenne mountain.
Summit County Journal & Breckenridge Bulletin
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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DAN CUPID FINALLY WON
Judge Signed Divorce Decree and Bridegroom Was Free to Marry.
DEPEW-POTTER NUPTIALS
Colorado Springs
April 12.
Cupid finally overcame the law's delays tonight, when Mrs. Grace Goodyear Depew and Captain Ashton Potter were married at the residence of the bride in this city, after two days of anxious waiting for the bridegroom's final decree of divorce to be signed in San Francisco, where the former Mrs. Potter secured an interlocutory decree on April 10, 1909.
Through an oversight, the Interlocutory decree was not entered on the county records until April 12, 1909, and as the statutes of California forbid the issuance of a final decree in less than twelve months from the date upon which the Interlocutory decree has been recorded, today was the first upon which the marriage could be legally solemnized. In the meantime, ignorant of the delay in recording the interlocutory decree, Mrs. Depew and Captain Potter had arranged to be married on Monday, believing the year would be up on that day. Failure to receive the news that the final decree had been granted upset their plans and there followed two days of anxious waiting in which the wires to San Francisco were kept hot in an investigation into the cause of the delay.
This morning Judge Graham signed the final decree in San Francisco, and at 6:30 this evening the wedding took place at thee bride's handsome home at Broadmoor, a fashionable suburb of this city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Adna N. Moore, pastor of the Second Congregational church, and the only witnesses to the marriage were Clarence C. Hamlin of this city, the attorney who represented Mrs. Depew in her divorce proceedings, and Mr. and Mrs. Jay B. Lippincott of Colorado Springs and Phuiladelphia. Immediately after the ceremony Mr, and Mrs. Potter left for New York, whence they will sail for Europe.
Owing to the social prominence of both the bride and groom, the interrupted wedding plans have attracted much interest. Mrs. Potter is the daughter of the late Robert Goodyear, a multi-millionaire manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Y. from whom she inherited a fortune estimated at $12, 000,000. Her former husband, Granson Depew of Buffalo is a nephew of Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York.
Captain Potter, who was until recently of the United States army, is a nephew of the late Bishop Potter of New York.
The couple met in Switzerland about three years ago when Captain Potter was traveling with his first wife who was Miss Mary Louise McNutt, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. McNutt, prominent in San Francisco society. Shortly afterwards, Captain Potter returned to this country, coming direct to Colorado Springs, while his wife returned to her parents in California. A few months later Mrs. Depew took up her residence here. She obtained a divorce from her husband in January 1909 in this city. Mrs. Potter divorced her husband on the grounds of desertion the following April in San Francisco.
Herald Democrat
April 14, 1910
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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United States Passport Application: 41999
STATE OF COLORADO
COUNTY OF EL PASO
I, Ashton Howard Potter, A NATIVE AND LOYAL CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, do hereby apply to the Department of State at Washington for a passport for Ashton Howard Potter born at N.Y. N.Y. on the 25th day of Dec. 1870 and I do solemnly swear that I was born at N.Y. in the State of N.Y. on or about the 25th day 1870 that my father was a native citizen of the United States; that I am domiciled in the United States, my permanent residence being at Colo. Spgs. in the state of CO where I follow the occupation of ___________ (blank); I am about to go abroad temporarily and that I intend to return to the United States April or May 1911.
Name Ashton Howard Potter
Event Type Passport Application
Event Date 1911
Currennt Address: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Event Place El Paso County, Colorado
Gender Male
Birth Date 25 Dec 1870
Birthplace New York
Certificate Number 41999
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE:
Further, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. SO HELP ME GOD.
Sworn to before me this 30th day of Dec. 1910. (Signed by notary public.)
SIGNED: Ashton Howard Potter.
DESCRITION OF APPLICANT:
Age: 40
Stature: 5 feet 11 3/4 inches, Eng.
Forehead: Straight
Eyes: Hazel
Nose: Straight
Mouth: Straight
Chin: Straight
Hair: Gray
Complexion: Florid
Face: Round
IDENTIFICATION:
Dec. 30th, 1910. I Hereby Certify, that I know the above named Ashton Howard Potter, personally, and know hiim to be a native-born citizen of the United States, and that the facts stated in his affidavit are true to the best o9f my knowledge and belief.
Signed: Victor W. [William] Hungerford
Address: 1707 Wood Ave.
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Applicant desires possport sent to following addres:
El Pomar, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Stamped as Issued: Jan 6, 1911 by Bureau of Citizenship, Dept. of State
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Penrose House History
The original one-story estate was built as a single-family residence in 1910 for Ashton Potter and Grace Goodyear Potter. They called it El Pomar because it was built on land that once belonged to the Dixon apple orchard. El Pomar is spanish for orchard. The Potters did not live there long before both passed away.
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CAPT. POTTER DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS MOUNTAIN CABIN
Colorado Springs, Aug. 7
Ashton Potter, formerly a captain of cavalry in the U. S. Army, club member, and society leader, died suddenly Thursday afternoon at the Potter cabin on the slope of Cheyenne mountain just above his palatial Broadmoor home, of heart disease and gastritis.
Aspen Democrat-Times
August 7, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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ASHTON POTTER IS DEAD
Colorado Springs.
Ashton Potter, millionaire clubman, bon vivant, and globe trotter, is dead.
Fairplay Flume
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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POTTER'S WIDOW CRITICALLY ILL
Colorado Springs.
So seriously ill was Mrs. Ashton Potter that she was unable to attend the funeral of her husband, who died in their cabin on Cheyenne mountain. The funeral was private and the body was placed in the receiving vault at Evergreen Cemetery. The condition of Mrs. Potter, who has been an invalid for several years, is causing grave concern to her friends. The funeral services were held at El Bomar, the palatial bungalow of the Potters at the foot of Cheyenne mountain.
Summit County Journal & Breckenridge Bulletin
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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DAN CUPID FINALLY WON
Judge Signed Divorce Decree and Bridegroom Was Free to Marry.
DEPEW-POTTER NUPTIALS
Colorado Springs
April 12.
Cupid finally overcame the law's delays tonight, when Mrs. Grace Goodyear Depew and Captain Ashton Potter were married at the residence of the bride in this city, after two days of anxious waiting for the bridegroom's final decree of divorce to be signed in San Francisco, where the former Mrs. Potter secured an interlocutory decree on April 10, 1909.
Through an oversight, the Interlocutory decree was not entered on the county records until April 12, 1909, and as the statutes of California forbid the issuance of a final decree in less than twelve months from the date upon which the Interlocutory decree has been recorded, today was the first upon which the marriage could be legally solemnized. In the meantime, ignorant of the delay in recording the interlocutory decree, Mrs. Depew and Captain Potter had arranged to be married on Monday, believing the year would be up on that day. Failure to receive the news that the final decree had been granted upset their plans and there followed two days of anxious waiting in which the wires to San Francisco were kept hot in an investigation into the cause of the delay.
This morning Judge Graham signed the final decree in San Francisco, and at 6:30 this evening the wedding took place at thee bride's handsome home at Broadmoor, a fashionable suburb of this city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Adna N. Moore, pastor of the Second Congregational church, and the only witnesses to the marriage were Clarence C. Hamlin of this city, the attorney who represented Mrs. Depew in her divorce proceedings, and Mr. and Mrs. Jay B. Lippincott of Colorado Springs and Phuiladelphia. Immediately after the ceremony Mr, and Mrs. Potter left for New York, whence they will sail for Europe.
Owing to the social prominence of both the bride and groom, the interrupted wedding plans have attracted much interest. Mrs. Potter is the daughter of the late Robert Goodyear, a multi-millionaire manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Y. from whom she inherited a fortune estimated at $12, 000,000. Her former husband, Granson Depew of Buffalo is a nephew of Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York.
Captain Potter, who was until recently of the United States army, is a nephew of the late Bishop Potter of New York.
The couple met in Switzerland about three years ago when Captain Potter was traveling with his first wife who was Miss Mary Louise McNutt, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. McNutt, prominent in San Francisco society. Shortly afterwards, Captain Potter returned to this country, coming direct to Colorado Springs, while his wife returned to her parents in California. A few months later Mrs. Depew took up her residence here. She obtained a divorce from her husband in January 1909 in this city. Mrs. Potter divorced her husband on the grounds of desertion the following April in San Francisco.
Herald Democrat
April 14, 1910
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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United States Passport Application: 41999
STATE OF COLORADO
COUNTY OF EL PASO
I, Ashton Howard Potter, A NATIVE AND LOYAL CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, do hereby apply to the Department of State at Washington for a passport for Ashton Howard Potter born at N.Y. N.Y. on the 25th day of Dec. 1870 and I do solemnly swear that I was born at N.Y. in the State of N.Y. on or about the 25th day 1870 that my father was a native citizen of the United States; that I am domiciled in the United States, my permanent residence being at Colo. Spgs. in the state of CO where I follow the occupation of ___________ (blank); I am about to go abroad temporarily and that I intend to return to the United States April or May 1911.
Name Ashton Howard Potter
Event Type Passport Application
Event Date 1911
Currennt Address: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Event Place El Paso County, Colorado
Gender Male
Birth Date 25 Dec 1870
Birthplace New York
Certificate Number 41999
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE:
Further, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. SO HELP ME GOD.
Sworn to before me this 30th day of Dec. 1910. (Signed by notary public.)
SIGNED: Ashton Howard Potter.
DESCRITION OF APPLICANT:
Age: 40
Stature: 5 feet 11 3/4 inches, Eng.
Forehead: Straight
Eyes: Hazel
Nose: Straight
Mouth: Straight
Chin: Straight
Hair: Gray
Complexion: Florid
Face: Round
IDENTIFICATION:
Dec. 30th, 1910. I Hereby Certify, that I know the above named Ashton Howard Potter, personally, and know hiim to be a native-born citizen of the United States, and that the facts stated in his affidavit are true to the best o9f my knowledge and belief.
Signed: Victor W. [William] Hungerford
Address: 1707 Wood Ave.
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Applicant desires possport sent to following addres:
El Pomar, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Stamped as Issued: Jan 6, 1911 by Bureau of Citizenship, Dept. of State
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Penrose House History
The original one-story estate was built as a single-family residence in 1910 for Ashton Potter and Grace Goodyear Potter. They called it El Pomar because it was built on land that once belonged to the Dixon apple orchard. El Pomar is spanish for orchard. The Potters did not live there long before both passed away.
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CAPT. POTTER DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS MOUNTAIN CABIN
Colorado Springs, Aug. 7
Ashton Potter, formerly a captain of cavalry in the U. S. Army, club member, and society leader, died suddenly Thursday afternoon at the Potter cabin on the slope of Cheyenne mountain just above his palatial Broadmoor home, of heart disease and gastritis.
Aspen Democrat-Times
August 7, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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ASHTON POTTER IS DEAD
Colorado Springs.
Ashton Potter, millionaire clubman, bon vivant, and globe trotter, is dead.
Fairplay Flume
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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POTTER'S WIDOW CRITICALLY ILL
Colorado Springs.
So seriously ill was Mrs. Ashton Potter that she was unable to attend the funeral of her husband, who died in their cabin on Cheyenne mountain. The funeral was private and the body was placed in the receiving vault at Evergreen Cemetery. The condition of Mrs. Potter, who has been an invalid for several years, is causing grave concern to her friends. The funeral services were held at El Bomar, the palatial bungalow of the Potters at the foot of Cheyenne mountain.
Summit County Journal & Breckenridge Bulletin
August 14, 1914
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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DAN CUPID FINALLY WON
Judge Signed Divorce Decree and Bridegroom Was Free to Marry.
DEPEW-POTTER NUPTIALS
Colorado Springs
April 12.
Cupid finally overcame the law's delays tonight, when Mrs. Grace Goodyear Depew and Captain Ashton Potter were married at the residence of the bride in this city, after two days of anxious waiting for the bridegroom's final decree of divorce to be signed in San Francisco, where the former Mrs. Potter secured an interlocutory decree on April 10, 1909.
Through an oversight, the Interlocutory decree was not entered on the county records until April 12, 1909, and as the statutes of California forbid the issuance of a final decree in less than twelve months from the date upon which the Interlocutory decree has been recorded, today was the first upon which the marriage could be legally solemnized. In the meantime, ignorant of the delay in recording the interlocutory decree, Mrs. Depew and Captain Potter had arranged to be married on Monday, believing the year would be up on that day. Failure to receive the news that the final decree had been granted upset their plans and there followed two days of anxious waiting in which the wires to San Francisco were kept hot in an investigation into the cause of the delay.
This morning Judge Graham signed the final decree in San Francisco, and at 6:30 this evening the wedding took place at thee bride's handsome home at Broadmoor, a fashionable suburb of this city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Adna N. Moore, pastor of the Second Congregational church, and the only witnesses to the marriage were Clarence C. Hamlin of this city, the attorney who represented Mrs. Depew in her divorce proceedings, and Mr. and Mrs. Jay B. Lippincott of Colorado Springs and Phuiladelphia. Immediately after the ceremony Mr, and Mrs. Potter left for New York, whence they will sail for Europe.
Owing to the social prominence of both the bride and groom, the interrupted wedding plans have attracted much interest. Mrs. Potter is the daughter of the late Robert Goodyear, a multi-millionaire manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Y. from whom she inherited a fortune estimated at $12, 000,000. Her former husband, Granson Depew of Buffalo is a nephew of Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York.
Captain Potter, who was until recently of the United States army, is a nephew of the late Bishop Potter of New York.
The couple met in Switzerland about three years ago when Captain Potter was traveling with his first wife who was Miss Mary Louise McNutt, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. McNutt, prominent in San Francisco society. Shortly afterwards, Captain Potter returned to this country, coming direct to Colorado Springs, while his wife returned to her parents in California. A few months later Mrs. Depew took up her residence here. She obtained a divorce from her husband in January 1909 in this city. Mrs. Potter divorced her husband on the grounds of desertion the following April in San Francisco.
Herald Democrat
April 14, 1910
Transcribed by Carol Moore.
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United States Passport Application: 41999
STATE OF COLORADO
COUNTY OF EL PASO
I, Ashton Howard Potter, A NATIVE AND LOYAL CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, do hereby apply to the Department of State at Washington for a passport for Ashton Howard Potter born at N.Y. N.Y. on the 25th day of Dec. 1870 and I do solemnly swear that I was born at N.Y. in the State of N.Y. on or about the 25th day 1870 that my father was a native citizen of the United States; that I am domiciled in the United States, my permanent residence being at Colo. Spgs. in the state of CO where I follow the occupation of ___________ (blank); I am about to go abroad temporarily and that I intend to return to the United States April or May 1911.
Name Ashton Howard Potter
Event Type Passport Application
Event Date 1911
Currennt Address: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Event Place El Paso County, Colorado
Gender Male
Birth Date 25 Dec 1870
Birthplace New York
Certificate Number 41999
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE:
Further, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. SO HELP ME GOD.
Sworn to before me this 30th day of Dec. 1910. (Signed by notary public.)
SIGNED: Ashton Howard Potter.
DESCRITION OF APPLICANT:
Age: 40
Stature: 5 feet 11 3/4 inches, Eng.
Forehead: Straight
Eyes: Hazel
Nose: Straight
Mouth: Straight
Chin: Straight
Hair: Gray
Complexion: Florid
Face: Round
IDENTIFICATION:
Dec. 30th, 1910. I Hereby Certify, that I know the above named Ashton Howard Potter, personally, and know hiim to be a native-born citizen of the United States, and that the facts stated in his affidavit are true to the best o9f my knowledge and belief.
Signed: Victor W. [William] Hungerford
Address: 1707 Wood Ave.
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Applicant desires possport sent to following addres:
El Pomar, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Stamped as Issued: Jan 6, 1911 by Bureau of Citizenship, Dept. of State
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Penrose House History
The original one-story estate was built as a single-family residence in 1910 for Ashton Potter and Grace Goodyear Potter. They called it El Pomar because it was built on land that once belonged to the Dixon apple orchard. El Pomar is spanish for orchard. The Potters did not live there long before both passed away.
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