William H. Potter
1816 - 1908 (91 years)
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Name William H. Potter Born 17 Aug 1816 New York 
[1, 2] Gender Male Census 1860 Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois Census 1870 Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois Occupation farmer Died 25 Mar 1908 [1] Buried Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois [1] Person ID I2870 Gritton Last Modified 4 Jan 2019
Father Elijah Potter, b. 3 Sep 1790, Fort Ann, Washington County, New York , d. 8 May 1876, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 85 years) Mother Lanie Van Wormer, b. 2 Jun 1793, Washington County, New York , d. 18 Jun 1856, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 63 years) Married 1810 Washington County, New York Family ID F1039 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Hester B. Lane, b. 15 Jan 1823, Franklin County, Ohio , d. 24 Jul 1897, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 74 years) Married 25 Jul 1847 Vermilion County, Illinois [2, 3] - Marriage License Abstracts Vermilion County, Illinois. Page 60. No record of anyone signing for bride or groom.
Children 1. Elijah Potter, b. 28 Sep 1848, Illinois , d. 27 Sep 1915 (Age 66 years)2. William Henry Potter, b. 17 Jan 1850, Illinois , d. 22 Mar 1925, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 75 years)3. Eliza Jane Potter, b. 20 Dec 1851, Illinois , d. 11 Feb 1943, Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 91 years)4. Burke Potter, b. 1854, Illinois , d. 1935 (Age 81 years)5. Joseph F. Potter, b. Abt 1855, Illinois 6. Mary Elizabeth Potter, b. 5 Apr 1858, Illinois , d. 25 Jul 1926, Bismarck, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 68 years)7. Lincoln Abraham Potter, b. 1860, Illinois , d. 15 Mar 1888 (Age 28 years)8. Andrew Jesse Potter, b. 17 Aug 1865, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 12 May 1932, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 66 years)Last Modified 6 Jul 2019 Family ID F1188 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 17 Aug 1816 - New York 
Married - 25 Jul 1847 - Vermilion County, Illinois 
Census - 1860 - Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois Census - 1870 - Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Buried - - Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - History of Vermilion County: Together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts. By H. W. Beckwith. Chicago, H.H. Hill and Company, Publishers, 1879.
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William Potter, Danville, farmer and stock-dealer, section 27, was born in the state of New York, on the 16th of August, 1817. He came to this state in 1830, settling in New Town. He was married on the 26th of July, 1847, to Hester Lane, who was born in Franklin county, Ohio, in 1823. They have seven children by this marriage: Elijah, William H., Eliza J., John F., Mary E., Lincoln A. and Andrew J. Mr. Potter had but little property with which to start in life, his first tax being only six cents; but he has by hard labor, economy and good management, acquired a property of hour hundred acres of land. His taxes have since been as high as $250 a year. He went in an early day to Chicago from Blount township on foot, carrying his clothes on his back, and there worked for seventy-five cents a day digging the cellar for the first brick house ever built in chicago. His father lived to be eighty-eight years old and his mother ninety-three. Mr. Potter is a republican, and does not belong to any church.
- History of Vermilion County: Together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts. By H. W. Beckwith. Chicago, H.H. Hill and Company, Publishers, 1879.
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