Joel Potter From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 917.

PLATTEVILLE

JOEL POTTER, deceased; was a native of Plymouth, Litchfield Co., Conn., born in 1807. He was married in 1829, to Miss Mary Payne, who was born in Vernon, Tolland Co., Conn., in 1806. Came to Schuyler Co., Ill., in 1837, and from there to Platteville in November, 1844. Immediately after coming to Platteville, he started a plow-shop in the village, which was the first shop of the kind in Wisconsin west of Madison; he continued that business till his death March 29, 1874. The oldest daughter, Mary, died in August, 1847, aged 17; Seth died in California in 1851, aged 19; Hattie was married to A. Y. Felton, and died Feb. 14, 1874; Charles died Dec. 18, 1880, and Julia in 1846, 3 years old; John now lives in Eagan, Dakota, and Henry is in the mercantile business at Lake Benton, Minn. Mrs. Potter is the only one left of a family of six, four brothers and two sisters, and she is doing her own work and living alone, at 75 years of age.

 


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