The record-union., 1892-10-28
PARACLRTE POTTER.
Death of a WeII-KnoWn Sacramentan
in Wisconsin.
He Was Once a Journalist and a Sol
der, and Came of Family of
Considerable Note.

Word has been received from Elkhorn,
Wis, of the death of Paraclete Potter,
the well-known harnessmaker of this
city, who went on a visit there several
months ago. His wife and son are at
their home in this city.
Few Sacramentans, even among the
neighbors of the deceased, were aware
that he had history of more than com
mon interest, so quiet and unostentatious
was his life here. The following sketch of
Mr.. Potter, from the Elkhorn, Wis, In
dependent of October Goth, will be of in
terest to his friends in this city:
"Paraclete Potter, youngest son of Rob-
ert X. and Sarah pine Potter, died at
his brother Joseph's house, in Lafayette,
last Thursday, October 18th, and was
buried at Lafayette Cemetery on Satur-
day. He was born in the town of Perrin
ton, Monroe County, n. Y, Septem ber
2, 1886. His parents came to this county
in 1913, and here he lived for about
twenty-one years. This period includes
his education, his career, from appren-
ticehood to ownership, as a skillful har-
ness-maker; his marriage with daugh-
ter of Hon. Robert L. Seymour; his
membership and leadership of the once
famous and yet pleasantly remembered
Elkhorn Cornet Band (of the later fifties
and earlier sixties), and his service in the
same band while it was regimental band
of the battle-scarred Twelfth Wisconsin
Infantry. About 1864 he removed to
California where ne lived about quarter
of a century.
His temperance last spring among
relatives and old friends and acquaint-
anceS at and about Elkhorn was occasion
loau0h n nj ra1all of thiflnG T1Ia
ant or unpleasant in their existence or
occurrence in the rather checbered past
of our village and its middle-aged and
older residents. Mr.. Potter talked and
listened with the customary relish of
men who have seen much, done some
thing, and endured not little, and he
enjoyed fully his visit here, as well as a
trip to farther Minnesota to see a brother
and other relatives there. Though not in
the best Of health, neither himself nor
friends had long forewarning of his last
sickness and death. He leaves a son,
full-grown, in California. AS his family,
generally, have been long-lived, his
death at So years may be regarded as un-
timely, certainly by his still living school
mates and old friends OF mis- own genera
ton.
when the subject of this sketch was
born there were living four brothers
named Potter, each of whom was in some
way noteworthy. AlOnZO soon after
ward became Bishop OF the Episcopal
diocese of Pennsylvania, and held that
dignity long and most worthiIy.
Horatio, still later, held the same rank
in the diocese of New y York, which did
not then include the western, central
and northern counties. Paraclete was
editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Robert X, pious man, though not OF
the same communion with his more emil
nent brothers, was q pioneer of the town
OF Lafayette, and named three of his large
family for the three aforementioned
/ brothers.
''Of these boys. Alonzo is in Minnesota,
| Horatio lives with Joseph on theiI
! fathers old farm, and Paraclete was
/ buried last week. At the death of Rt.
Rev. Horatio Potter, his smaller diocese
was divided into three new ones. The
smallest territorially but otherwise mosi
/ important one of these is that of New
! York City, and the first Bishop of this
new see is Rt. Rev. Henry Goldman Pot
ter, son of the venerable Bishop Of
! Pennsylvania, and first cousin o.
Robert X. Potter's sons and daughters.
'At the funeral services of Paraclett
| Potter, Rev. E. c. Potter, of the NJ. K
Church, preached an appropriate dis
course, highly spoken OF by all who
heard it."