OBIT: James POTTER, 1871, native of Centre County, PA

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POTTER - GENERAL JAMES POTTER - This well known Pennsylvanian died 
suddenly at Harrisburg on the night of the 9th inst. The deceased was 
born in Penn's Valley, Centre county. At an early age he embarked in 
business, and for several years was quite successful as an iron 
manufacturer, as well as in other manufacturing and commercial 
enterprises; but reverses swept away his large fortune, and at the time 
of his death he was comparatively poor. Perhaps no man in the 
Commonwealth had a larger circle of acquaintances or was more 
universally esteemed by his friends. At the time of his death General 
Potter was in the 54th year of his age.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, March 22, 1871