Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Hon. Clarkson N. Potter died at Now York on the 23d of January. He was born in gcbenectady, N. Y., in 1825, and graduated at Union College (of which his grandfather, Rev. Eliphalet Nott, was President, and his father, Bishop Alonzo Potter, Vice President) in 1842, and a year later graduated as a civil engineer from Renssellaer Institute, going to Wisconsin to begin his profession, and while a resident of that State studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1847 he started his career as a lawyer in New York city, identified with a number es prominent cases. In 1868 be was elected to the Forty-first Congress. He was re-elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third and Forty-fifth Congresses.