Mendocino County Biographies

E. W. Potter

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Illinois, November 10, 1840. His parents crossed the 
plains when he was quite young, and settled in Shasta county, where the father 
engaged in mining till 1854. In that year they came to Lake county. E. W. 
entered the office of the Trinity Journal in 1860 as an apprentice. He then 
worked in several offices until 1867, when he took charge of a hardware business 
in Colusa. He then went to Sacramento and was foreman of the car shop for two 
years. In 1871 he engaged in the hardware business under the firm name of Smith, 
Davis, Potter & Co., in Sacramento. In October, 1874, he came to Mendocino 
county, and settled at Mendocino City, engaging in the hardware business, which 
he followed till March 1, 1880. He was the Under-Sheriff under J. H. Donohoe. 
Married September 10, 1874, Miss Eva G. Bird, daughter of R. E. Bird, ex-editor 
of the Sacramento Record-Union. They have one child, Eber W., born May 18, 1875.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 661