Julian Potter
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Julian Potter | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 10, 1858 New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 1913 (aged 55) Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard College Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Spouse |
Alice Berenice Pixley
(m. 1894) |
| Parent(s) | Edward Tuckerman Potter Julia Blatchford Potter |
| Relatives | Alonzo Potter (grandfather) Howard Potter (uncle) Robert Potter (uncle) Clarkson Potter (uncle) Henry Potter (uncle) William Potter (uncle) Samuel Blatchford (uncle) Howard Nott Potter (cousin) |
Julian Potter (August 10, 1858 – August 14, 1913)[1] was an American banker and diplomat who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
Potter was born in New Rochelle, New York on August 10, 1858. He was the son of Edward Tuckerman Potter and Julia Maria (née Blatchford) Potter (1834–1922). Among his siblings was Edward Clarkson Potter (husband of Emily Blanche Havemeyer, daughter of Theodore Havemeyer), Richard Milford Blatchford Potter, Robert Francis Potter, Ethelinda Potter, Louisa (née Potter) Delano (wife of William Adams Delano); and Julia Selden (née Potter) McIlvaine.[1]
His maternal grandparents were U.S. Minister to the State of the Church Richard Milford Blatchford and Julian Ann (née Mumford) Blatchford. His uncle was Samuel Blatchford, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. His paternal grandparents were Sarah (née Nott) Potter (daughter of Eliphalet Nott, the longest serving college president in the United States[2]) and Alonzo Potter, the Episcopalian Bishop of Pennsylvania. Among his many prominent Potter relatives were uncles Howard Potter, a New York City banker; Robert Brown Potter, a General in the American Civil War;[3] Democratic U.S. Representative Clarkson Nott Potter;[4] Henry Codman Potter, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York; Eliphalet Nott Potter, who served as President of Union College and Hobart College; and William Appleton Potter, also an architect who designed the Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey.[5][6]
Potter fitted for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then attended Harvard College, studying architecture, from October 1877 until March 1878. Due to his health, he left Harvard and thereafter began attending Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1882 and A.M. degree in 1885.[7]
