Alonzo Potter

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Alonzo Potter
Alonzo Potter (about 1857)

Alonzo Potter (born July 6 or July 10, 1800 in La Grange , New York , † July 4, 1865 in San Francisco , California ) was an American clergyman and philosopher. He was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania and professor at Union College .

Alonzo Potter came from a family of Quakers . He studied at Union College (graduation in 1818), where he became a tutor in 1819 and a professorship in mathematics and natural philosophy in 1821 . In 1825 he was offered the presidency of Geneva College , but he declined. From 1831 to 1845 he was Vice President and Professor of Rational Philosophy and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at Union College .

Soon after graduating, Potter turned to the Episcopal Church . In 1821 he was ordained as a deacon and in 1824 as a priest . From 1826 to 1831 he was pastor at St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston . On September 23, 1845, he became Bishop of Pennsylvania for the Anglican Episcopal Church . He made a contribution to the establishment of a hospital and an ecclesiastical college of the diocese.

In 1831 Potter was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1844 to the American Philosophical Society . Potter was in 1846 at Harvard University a Doctor of Divinity and the Union College a LL. D. , each as an honorary doctorate .

In 1824 Potter married Sarah Maria Nott, daughter of the President of Union College, Eliphalet Nott . The couple had seven children, including Clarkson Nott Potter (1825-1882, civil engineer, lawyer and politician). Sarah Maria Potter died in 1839 giving birth to the seventh child. In 1840 Alonzo Potter married her cousin, Sarah Benedict, with whom he in turn had three sons and who died of consumption. A few months before his death, Alonzo Potter married Frances Seton.

Fonts

  • as editor: Wilks's Christian Essays , 1829
  • as editor: Maria James's Poems , 1839
  • The Principles of Science applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts , 1841
  • Political Economy , 1841
  • with George Barrell Emerson : The School and Schoolmaster , 1844
  • Hand-Book for Readers and Students , 1847
  • Discourses, Charges, Addresses, Pastoral Letters etc. , 1858
  • Religious Philosophy , 1870
  • Plan of Temperance Organization for Cities
  • as editor: Harper's Family Library (7 issues)

Sources and References

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Potter, Alonzo. In: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography , 1888
  2. ↑ Potter, Alonzo. In: FS Drake: Dictionary of American Biography , 1870
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter P. (PDF; 649 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Alonzo Potter. In: search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ George Hodges: Henry Codman Potter, seventh bishop of New York . Macmillan, 1915, p. 13 (Retrieved December 24, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Potter, Alonzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1800 or July 10, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH La Grange , New York
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1865
Place of death San Francisco , California