Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1902 — BISHOP POTTER A BENEDICT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BISHOP POTTER A BENEDICT.

Noted Prelate Marrfas Mrs. Alfred ■ Corn Inc Clark. The marriage of Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark to Henry Codmnn Potter, Bishop) of New York, was solemnized at Coopers* |

town, N. Y., in* Christ Church at; noon Saturday. Rev.* Dr. Grosvenor, rec-' tor of the Church of tli e Incarnation,' New York, assisted; by Rev. Dr. George F. Nelson, performed the Episcopal) ceremony, and Rev. Dr. W. W. Lord* pronounced ediction. Immediately after leaving the chnrcA

a wedding breakfast was served to about thirty guests at Fernleigh, the bride’s former residence, and early in the evening the bishop and his wife departed in a special car upon the beginning of their wedding journay. Bishop Potter is 67 years old and the bride is 52. Mrs. Clark’s late husband left an estate vulued at $25,000,000, of which she received one-half. Bishop Potter was horn at Schenectady, N. Y., May 25, 1835, where bis father, the Ilev. Alonzo Potter, afterward Bishop of Pennsylvania, was the vicepresident and acting president of Union College for many years. He was ordained Oct. 15, 1858. In succession he was rector of Christ Church, Greensbnrg, Pa. St. John's Church, Troy, N. Y.; assistant rector of Trinity, Boston, and rector of Grace Church, New York City. In 1883 he was chosen assistant to his uncle, Horatio Potter, then Bishop of New York, and ou Bishop Potter’* death in 1807 was chosen his successor. The bishop was first married in 1857 to Eliza It. Jacobs of Philadelphia. Mrs. , Potter died on June 29 of last year from heat prostration. Besides her husband she left five daughters and one son. Mrs. Potter left an estate of $30,000, which was left absolutely to her husband. Mrs. Clark’s husband died on April 8, 1890. He was 51 years old. Besides his widow he left four sons.

BISHOP POTTER.