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He was born on July 6, 1800 at Beekman, New York, United States, a descendant of Robert Potter of Coventry, England, who came to America in 1634. His parents, Joseph and Anne (Knight) Potter, were of the Society of Friends and had moved from Rhode Island and settled on a farm in Beekman. The elder Potter prospered in his business and became a member of the state legislature.
After attending the common school in Beekman, Alonzo was sent to an academy at Poughkeepsie, ten miles away. Thence he passed to Union College, Schenectady, an institution which, under President Eliphalet Nott, was being transformed into one of the best colleges in the country. Here young Potter greatly distinguished himself. He graduated in 1818.
He went to Philadelphia, where he was employed for a time by his elder brother, Sheldon, a book-seller. Alonzo soon became interested in the Protestant Episcopal Church, was baptized by Bishop William White at St. Peter's, and began studies for the ministry under the Rev. Samuel H. Turner.
In 1819 he returned to Union College as a tutor and in 1822 was made professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. The following year he published a brief treatise on logarithms. In the meanwhile he continued his studies in preparation for Holy Orders. He was made deacon May 1, 1822, by Bishop John Henry Hobart of the diocese of New York, and ordained priest September 16, 1824, by Bishop Thomas G. Brownell.
The newly founded Geneva College, later known as Hobart College, called him to be its first president, but he declined this offer and in 1826 removed to Boston, Massachussets, to serve for five years as the rector of St. Paul's. Recalled to Union College as professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and political economy, he remained nearly fifteen years. He declined an election as assistant bishop of what then was known as the Eastern Diocese, comprising all New England except Connecticut, and became in the same year, 1838, vice-president of the college.
In 1845 he was elected bishop of Pennsylvania in succession to Henry U. Onderdonk, and was consecrated September 23, 1845. As a bishop, Potter did his best work. His years of experience at Union College were an aid to him in the administrative work of his office. Under his direction this work was not mere routine, but a development of the work of his Church in the community. In 1846 he revived the Protestant Episcopal Academy, which had long been closed. With a view to developing cooperation among the clergy and preparing for the creation of new dioceses, he instituted the system of convocations.
His last literary work was his four series of Lowell Lectures, delivered in Boston, upon natural theology and Christian evidences. Begun in the winter of 1845, and continued in the two following winters and in 1853, they were published after his death under the title Religious Philosophy; or Nature, Man and the Bible Witnessing to God and to Religious Truth.
During the last years of his life he suffered from physical ailments, which European travel did not relieve. Early in 1865 he started on a voyage to California by the Strait of Magellan. He reached San Francisco Bay, but died aboard ship on July 4.
Alonzo Potter has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, educator by Marquis Who's Who.
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He was an advocate of temperance reform. He opposed slavery and wrote in confutation of the claim that it was justified by the Bible.
Potter was broad-minded and tolerant toward those of differing opinions.
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A 1933 biography of Potter said that as bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, he left "a record of twenty years in that office probably never surpassed. " Except for the Revolutionary hero, Bishop White, Potter was "the greatest bishop ever ruling in the State of Pennsylvania. "
In 1824 he married Sarah Maria, the daughter of President Nott. In 1841 he married Sarah Benedict, the cousin of his first wife. She died in 1864, and a few months before his death he married Frances Seaton. Robert Brown, Henry Codman, and Eliphalet Nott Potter were his sons.
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