Julian Potter

Julian Potter (August 10, 1858 – August 14, 1913) ) and Alonzo Potter, the Episcopalian Bishop of Pennsylvania. Among his many prominent Potter relatives were uncles Howard Potter, a New York City banker; Robert Brown Potter, a General in the American Civil War; Democratic U.S. Representative Clarkson Nott Potter; Henry Codman Potter, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York; Eliphalet Nott Potter, who served as President of Union College and Hobart College; and William Appleton Potter, also an architect who designed the Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey.

Potter fitted for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then attended Harvard College, studying architecture, from October 1877 until March 1878. Due to his health, he left Harvard and thereafter began attending Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1882 and M.A. degree in 1885.

Career After graduating from Cambridge, Potter began his career with the firm of Breese and Smith, stockbrokers, in 1890.

In October 1900, he was commissioned U.S. Consul at Nassau, Bahamas, where he served for nine years. After the Bahamas, he was transferred to a port in France, but resigned due to ill health, and returned to America, where he died within a year. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. Potter was a member of the Knickerbocker Club and the Lambs Club.

Personal life On September 14, 1894, Potter was married to actress Alice Berenice Pixley, the sister of fellow actress Annie Pixley. Alice acted in several well known plays, including Trilby in 1895 and Shore Acres in 1893 by James A. Herne. Together, they were the parents of one child: Julia Anne Dorothea Potter (born 1905).