Amador County Biographies

E. S. POTTER 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Is a native of the famous Wooden Nutmeg State, which has sent such a vast number of keen business 
men into the commercial channels of the nation. He was born in the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, 
November 23, 1828, from which place he moved to Platteville, Wisconsin, in 1847, coming overland to 
Volcano, California, in 1852. After mining in that vicinity for about a year, he moved to Drytown, and 
spent about one year in mining on Poor Man's creek; thence to Arkansas diggings, near Michigan Bar, 
where he kept hotel in company with Geo. W. Harris. In 1860 he removed to Buckeye valley, where he 
raised stock until 1863, when he went to Pokerville, in the vicinity of Plymouth. When the mines 
failed at Pokerville he moved to Plymouth, then beginning to attract attention as a quartz mining 
region, where he has since remained engaged in various kinds of business, mostly teaming and lumbering. 
In 1873 he opened a lumber yard to supply the demand consequent upon the rapid building 
of the town. He was married, in 1858, to Miss Harriet Louisa Howard, of Forest Home. They have 
had fourteen children, six of whom are living. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.