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After his marriage to Eleanor Dodge (August 2, 1898), Bert worked in his father’s business. But early in the twentieth century he migrated into music, publishing his first songs in 1904.
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Bert Potter
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Bert Potter, born in Boston, was the first child of Algernon South. and Flora East. Potter. Algernon was a wholesale dealer in clothing, and Bert was raised in an upper-middle-class family, with two Irish servants in the household. Shortly afterwards he settled in Dorchester, in a house that he occupied the rest of his life.
The 1908 city directory identified him as a “musician,” and at least from 1910-1914 he worked as a salesman in piano stores.
By 1918, however, he had abandoned the musical profession and become an agent with John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company, serving in that capacity until his death.
