page_title: Alonzo Potter
section_title: Union College: 1821–1826
hierarchical_section_title: Alonzo Potter / Union College: 1821–1826
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving of Union College in 1804
context_page_description: Alonzo Potter was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Potter "identified himself with all the best interests of society."
context_section_description: In 1821, after his time with his brother in Philadelphia, Potter returned to Union College as a Tutor and soon became "Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy."
  While he was teaching at Union College, Potter was ordained Deacon in 1822 by Bishop John Henry Hobart. When he was twenty-four years old, he was ordained Priest in 1824 by Bishop Thomas Church Brownell. Shortly after he was ordained, Potter gathered "a little congregation of blacks in Schenectady" and became their minister.
  In 1823, Potter published his first book. It was A Tractate on Logarithms, by which he came known "as a proficient mathematician."
  In 1825, Geneva College, now Hobart College, offered the twenty-five-year-old Potter its presidency. However, he declined the offer.
caption: Union College, 1804
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