John R Potter, New York Photographer

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Pam Marks

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08/30/2011

John R Potter, New York Photographer

"From the Photographic Studio of J.R. Potter, Art Photographer 323 Main Str. Buffalo, NY" (Back of old photo advertising)
John R. Potter is noted in "The Industries of Buffalo (NY). A resume of the mercantile and manufacturing progress of the queen city of the lakes", published in 1887. Page 99, "...one of the accomplished and skillful members of the profession of whom we have knowledge is Mr. John R. Potter, whose studio and gallery of art occupy the third and fourth floors of the handsome building no. 323 Main Street...with all the latest improved and most effective apparatus and appliances...Mr. Potter has devoted more than 23 years of his life to mastering his art in detail...."
John Potter was in business from 1864 through 1900. He was described as a "popular gentleman, studious and attentive, and in every way a successful and prosperous man."

Date & Place: Jan at 323 Main Steet in Buffalo, New York USA

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Pam Marks

My life-time love of geneology and old photos led to the concept of Ancientfaces back in 1999....through the site I have made contact with previously unknown cousins in Australia, Tasmania, England, Scotland and various states in the US, broadening and enriching my family stories, photos and family relationships. The names I am researching resided in and/or settled the following areas: South Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland; Normandy; Germany, Belgium & the Netherlands; Virginia; West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Idaho and Washington state; first wave of settlers in the Hudson River & Mohawk River Vallies; founding fathers of New Haven, Middlesex and New London Counties, CT, along with Suffolk, Norfolk & Middlesex Counties in MA; first wave of settlers to Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Also, I am a member of the Mayflower Society after tracing my maternal side to John Billington, a Mayflower passenger ( with his family) who settled in Plymouth , and signed, the Mayflower compact.

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