Crawford County PA Archives Obituaries.....POTTER, Orson May 8, 1892
  ************************************************
  Copyright.  All rights reserved.
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
  ************************************************
  
  File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
  Diana Watson rwat@alltel.net January 15, 2006, 11:29 am
  
  Evening Republican May 13, 1892

  The Life, Public Services and Death of Col. O. O. Potter
  
  Col. Orson Osborne Potter, fourth son of Orson  Forbes and Lydia G. Potter, 
  died at the residence of his brother-in-law, W. G. Tritt, in Vernon township, 
  Crawford county, Pa., May 8, 1892.  Col. Potter was born at his father's farm, 
  Potter's Corners, Crawford county, Pa., Nov 27, 1827.  He attended school 
  winters and worked on the farm summers; received an academic education and 
  studied law; was graduated at the State and National law school of New York at 
  Poughkeepsie; entered the practice of law at Elmira, N. Y. , and removed from 
  there to the city of New York, where he remained in the practice until the 
  breaking out of the Rebellion, when with others he raised the 31st Regiment of 
  New York Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel afterward Brigadier General 
  Calvin E. Pratt.  He served with the regiment in the Army of the Potomac 
  during its term of service, and was then appointed by President Lincoln 
  captain and assistant quartermaster, and was ordered to the department of the 
  Gulf, where he took part in the siege of Port Hudson and in the active 
  campaigns in the state of Louisiana, on the staff of Maj. Gen. Weltzel, 
  closing his service in that state by participation of Gen. Bank's Red river 
  expedition as chief quartermaster on the staff of Gen. Emory.  On the return 
  of the corps from that campaign it went into camp at Morganzia on the 
  Mississippi river, and was soon after ordered to Washington, where it took 
  part in the defense of that city from the raid of Gen. Zuba.  Early, in all of 
  which operations he took part as chief quartermaster  in the 19th army corps, 
  and continued to do so through Gen. Sheridan's campaign in the Valley of the 
  Shenandoah.  In the following spring, 1865 the 19th army corps was broken up, 
  the near close of the war being apparent, and the various divisions were sent 
  to the South for duty in the Freedmen's bureau.  Capt Potter was then ordered 
  to Washington for duty in quartermaster's department in that city.  Soon 
  after the 25th corps under the command of Maj. Gen. Weltzel, was ordered to 
  the department of the Rio Grande.  Upson the solicitation of  the major 
  general commanding, Capt Potter was promoted to major and assistant  
  quartermaster, and ordered to report to Gen. Weltzel for duty, which he did at 
  Brazos de Santiago, July 4, 1865 and was soon after ordered by Maj.  Gen. 
  Steel to report to him as his chief quartermaster, in which capacity he 
  remained under various successive commanders and received the commission of 
  brevet lieutenant colonel and assistant  quartermaster, which position he 
  retained until he closed his term of service by sending in his resignation and 
  was muster out of the military service of the United States Feb. 6, 1866.  He 
  then entered into negotiations with President Juarez, of the Mexican Republic 
  to furnish arms and ammunition for his army then operating against the Emperor 
  Maximilian. He was thus the means of largely strengthening the army of Juarez, 
  whose campaigns at last ended in the tragic death of Maximillan and the 
  freedom of the Mexican Republic.  After having traveled extensively through 
  Mexico, he returned to the United States and retired to the old homestead 
  farm, where he lived some years.  In 1870 he married Adella, daughter of the 
  late Wm. Denny, Esq., who survives him.  In 1876 he was elected to the 
  Pennsylvania legislature and served two sessions.  In 1882 he removed to 
  Wellington, Kansas, from whence he returned to the place of his decease April 
  4, 1892.  For years he has taken a deep interest in the cause of religion, 
  united in 1864, with the Protestant Episcopal church at Brownsville, Texas, 
  remaining a member of that church till making his home in Wellington, where he 
  united with the Presbyterian church of that place.  His remains were interred in 
  the Denny cemetery May 9, 1892.  
  
  "Life's conflict o'er, may we, like him, be blest--In life be faithful, and in 
  death find rest."
  
  
  This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/
  
  File size: 4.5 Kb