Biographical Sketch of John Potter, Greene County, Missouri,
Brookline Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Potter was born in Eurzig, Prussia, and emigrated to America in 
1857, and located at Jefferson City, Missouri.  He moved to Greene 
County in 1860, locating where Brookline now stands, where he remained
until 1862, when he went to Springfield and worked in the government
wagon shops until 1865.  Mr. Potter was married upon the 30th of March,
1862, to Elizabeth Phillips.  Their union has been blest with four 
children, one girl, Mary Josephine, and three boys, Frederick William,
Lyman Theodroe and Roy.  Mr. Potter was the first man sworn in Captain
Abernathy's Home Guards and his sympathies were always with the Union.
When General Marmaduke attempted to enter Springfield in the fall of 
1863, he with all the hands of the shop, was called out to repel the
attack.  At the close of the war he engaged in the manufacture of 
wagons at Springfield, but at the end of a year removed to Little York,
one and one-half miles from Brookline, where he embarked in the grocery
business until November, 1871, when he moved to Brookline and engaged
in general merchandise.  He has been postmaster of Little York and
Brookline for sixteen consecutive years, and station and express agent
at the depot for eight years.  In politics Mr. Potter is a Republican
and has the confidence of all.

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