BIOGRAPHIES:  Hiram POTTER, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 12 January 2004
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Hiram Potter was born in Munson, Geauga county, Ohio, October 2, 1845, a son of 
Jabez K. and Dolly (Thompson) Potter, and is a lineal descendant of Aaron Potter 
(supposed to have been an Englishman), whose son, John Potter, was born September 
5, 1722.  His maternal grandfather, Ebenzer Thompson, was a captain in the United 
States army in the war of 1812.  When Hiram was eleven years old, the family 
removed to Hart's Grove, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where his father, a native of 
New York state, still lives; his mother, a native of Essex county, Vt. died there 
January 3, 1891.  Hiram was reared on a farm, and at twenty years of age began 
life as a teamster at Cleveland, Ohio.  Later he worked at Warren, Ohio, and in 
the fall of 1867 he came west to Read's Landing, Minn., where he worked in a saw-
mill; thence he went to Pepin in 1869.  From 1868 to 1872 he was employed as 
watchman on a steamboat.  June 26, 1872, he married Mis Addie M. Fuller, and to 
them have been born two children: Eva M. and Helen.  Mr. and Mrs. Potter have 
always lived in the village where they have a comfortable home.  Mr. Potter now 
devotes his time chiefly to threshing and manufacturing rafting pins, in company 
with D. W. Broatch.  He is a charter member of the local lodge of the A. O. U. W.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 758


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