The Potters of Rhode Island
- Elisha Reynolds Potter (1764–1835), Rhode Island State Representative 1793-1796 1798-1808 1816-1817 1819-1835, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island 1796-1797 1809-1815. Father of Elisha R. Potter.
- Elisha R. Potter (1811–1882), Adjutant General of Rhode Island 1835-1836, Rhode Island State Representative 1838-1840, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island 1843-1845, Rhode Island State Senator 1847-1852 1861-1863, Rhode Island Commissioner of Public Schools 1849-1854, Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1868-1882. Son of Elisha Reynolds Potter.
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Famous quotes containing the word island:
“We crossed a deep and wide bay which makes eastward north of Kineo, leaving an island on our left, and keeping to the eastern side of the lake. This way or that led to some Tomhegan or Socatarian stream, up which the Indian had hunted, and whither I longed to go. The last name, however, had a bogus sound, too much like sectarian for me, as if a missionary had tampered with it; but I knew that the Indians were very liberal. I think I should have inclined to the Tomhegan first.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)