“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


LEONARD POTTER,  farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Cambridge, Dane Co.; born 
in Rhode Island, November, 1816, where he passed his early life and 
received a common-school education; in 1844, came to Wisconsin and 
located in Walworth County, engaging at farming till the summer of 
1846, when he bought his present homestead in Oakland Township, 
consisting of eighty acres; owns in all 189 acres; raises the general 
products of the county and makes stock-raising a specialty.  Married, 
June, 1854, Mary Jane Irving, who was born in 1829; has three children 
– William T., Leonard J., Samuel G.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel