BIO: Pottorff, William A., M. D. - Jefferson Co, Kentucky Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:38:45 -0500 From: "Diana Flynn" ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. MORGAN COUNTY ADAMS TOWNSHIP PAGE 312 WILLIAM A. POTTORFF, M. D., druggist, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., August 20, 1839, and is a son of Simeon and Eliza A. (McKewen) Pottorff, both natives of Jefferson Co., Ky. The former was of German and the latter of Irish descent. Simeon Pottorff was educated and married in his native State, where in ealy life he was employed at the carding business in a woolen factory, at Jefferson, Ky.; afterward he engaged in agricultural pur- suits, and continued the same until the spring of 1877, when he came to Em- inence, Morgan County, Ind., and made his home with his son, our subject, until his death, which occurred March 23, 1878, in his eightieth year. Both himself and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he having been a member for more than seventy years. William A. Pottorff, the subject, received a good common school education in his native State, and was employed on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to Southern Kentucky, where he was engaged in teaching for two years, and afterward, for a short time, was employed as salesman in a general store. In the spring of 1864, he commenced the study of medi- cine, in Jefferson, Ky., with Dr. M. L. Cooper, and graduated from the Medical Department of the Louisville University in the spring of 1867. He then commenced the practice of his profession in his native county, where he remained some three years. In January, 1871, he came to Eminence, Morgan County, Ind., where he has since practiced his profession with excellent success. In June, 1883, he bought a drug store at Eminence, and is now conducting that business in connection with his profession. The Doctor was married, February 15, 1870, to Mary E. Butler, a native of Louisville, Ky. Four children, two sons and two daughters, have blessed this union, all of whom arre yet living. Both himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor is also a member of Em- inence Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A. M. In politics, he is a Democrat, and is one of the leading and prominent citizens of the township and county.