. Sprague's history of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw counties, Michigan : embracing a concise review of their early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, together with interesting reminiscences. adehis home until 1858. While living in thatstate he followed the painters trade for sev-eral years, but. hoping to improve his finan-cial condition, he left the Keystone state andcrossed the border into northeastern Ohio,settling at Andover, Ashtabula county,where he was living at the time of the in-auguration of the Civil war. Soon after theSouthern states declared secession and th
. Sprague's history of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw counties, Michigan : embracing a concise review of their early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, together with interesting reminiscences. adehis home until 1858. While living in thatstate he followed the painters trade for sev-eral years, but. hoping to improve his finan-cial condition, he left the Keystone state andcrossed the border into northeastern Ohio,settling at Andover, Ashtabula county,where he was living at the time of the in-auguration of the Civil war. Soon after theSouthern states declared secession and thePresident issued his call for troops to pre-serve the Union, Mr. Potter donned the blueuniform, joining Company B, Twenty-thirdOhio Infantry, in May. 1861. This was oneof the most noted regiments that went to thefront from the Buckeye state, doing valiantservice in the South. It was commanded byby Colonel R. B. Hayes, and Major McKin-ley was als< 1 one of its members. Perhaps noother regiment of the country can claim thedistinction of furnishing two Presidents tothe United States. Mr. Potter was at the front for nearly twoyears, and was then honorably dischargedon account of physical disability. He re-. CYRENUS M. POTTER AND FAMILY GRAND TRAVERSE AND LEELANAW COUNTIES. 607 turned t Ashtabula count), Ohio, wherelie remained for about four months, or untilthe fall of 1862, when he came to GrandTraverse county, arriving in the month ofOctober, accompanied by his wife and living in Ashtabula count) Mr. Potterhad been married, on the _4th of February,1859. t0 Miss Elizabeth Fisher, who washorn i Clinton county, New York, August<), 1842, and ere their removal to Michigana daughter had been horn to them. For forty-one years they have residedupon their farm in section 6, East Bay town-ship, having taken up their abode here at thetime of their arrival in the county. To thework of development and improvement has given his attention, and that hislife has been
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