A Veteran's Departure.
Dr. T. R. Potter, for a time a resident of Olathe, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. E. O'Kane, in Kansas City, Mo., on March 1. He had been in failinghealth for more than a year but it was not evident that the end was so near at hand until the last few months.
 
Dr. Potter was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, in the year 1819, and after reaching manhood and graduation from the Jeffersonian Medical College in Philadelphia was a practic ing physician for the last fifty years of his life, first in Fredericktown, then in Springfield, Ohio, and Chicago, and in his prime arose to eminence in his profession, among other positions of honor holding for a time the superintendency of the Ohio insane asylum.
 
He was for more than fifty years a member of the Baptist church and an earnest and consecrated soldier of the cross. From Chicago he and his wife moved to Olathe in January, 1901, and lived here until October of the same year when they moved to Kansas City, Kan was was not altogether new to him, for forty-five years ago he assisted Taney Jones, the great Indian missionary, to baptize the first converts ever baptized in the Marais des Cynes near Ottawa. Kan.
 
Dr. Potter throughout his whole life was exemplary in his sweet spirited and genial manner, his high sense of honor and honesty, and last and noblest his unswerving fidelity to the Master and his church. He was one of those positive characters, a tireless champion of a the right as he understood it and a fearless and uncompromising enemy of the wrong, but having with it all a spirit as gentle and loving as that of a child. Even during the short stay of himself and wife in Olathe they made many and lasting friends who now bow in submissive sorrow with her who is bereft. In him we hare a splendid example of a life's work completed nobly and triumphantly, and now at the ripe age of eighty-two the old soldier, still in his armor, "Walked with God and was not, for God took him." His body was interred in Olathe cemetery March 4.
J. E. Yates
 
Olathe Mirror
March 6, 1902
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