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He was born on February 9, 1802 at Beekman, now known as La Grange, Dutchess County, New York, United States, the son of Joseph and Anne (Knight) Potter, and a brother of Alonzo Potter
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He was born on February 9, 1802 at Beekman, now known as La Grange, Dutchess County, New York, United States, the son of Joseph and Anne (Knight) Potter, and a brother of Alonzo Potter
Horatio was educated in the local schools and at Union College, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1826.
After his graduation he began preparation for the ministry and was made deacon July 15, 1827, by Bishop John Henry Hobart. His diaconate was spent in Saco, Maine. Ordained priest December 14, 1828, by Bishop Hobart, he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the recently founded Washington College, now Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
He resigned in 1833 to accept the rectorship of St. Peter's Church, Albany, New York, where he remained twenty-one years, declining the election to the presidency of Trinity College in 1837.
In 1854 he was elected bishop of New York. The diocese of that time was in a troubled condition. Potter was a man admirably qualified for the intricate and delicate task of soothing the excited party feelings which had been roused by the Onderdonk episode. He was consecrated November 22, 1854, and served as "provisional bishop" until Onderdonk's death in 1861, when he became automatically bishop of the diocese in the fullest sense.
During the last three years of his life he withdrew from active work, surrendering all duties of the episcopate to his nephew, Henry C. Potter, who in 1883 had become his coadjutor.
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He was distinctly a man of the older ecclesiastical type, not only in his conception of his office, but in his theological position.
In obedience to his convictions, he had little to do with public matters, entering into none of the controversies arising in the nation, but confining himself to the strictly ecclesiastical side of his office. At times he was so cautious as almost to seem timid.
He was recognized as an eminently just man, unaffected by partisan feelings, and he commanded whole-hearted respect.
He lived to be a dignified old man, his conservatism manifesting itself in his dress, which was that of thirty years past.
Quotes from others about the person
As was stated at his death by his nephew and successor, Henry Codman Potter, there was "a singular wisdom and meekness in his episcopate and his habitual reserve was one of its largest elements of strength, founded upon a sounder conception of the Church as a church and not as a sect, than was understood by those who misjudged his patience and forbearance. "
He was twice married: first, September 22, 1827, to Mary Jane Tomlinson of Schenectady; second, to Margaret Atcheson Pollock, niece of the Scotch poet Robert Pollock. Of his six children three survived him.