Alvah Kimball Potter was born in Concord, N. H., March 31, 1840, and died at Lockport, N. Y., March 2, 1910. He was the son of Thomas and Eunice (Marden) Potter. In College he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Mr. Potter left College in the fall of senior year to enter the army, and did not return. He entered service as first lieutenant of Company H, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, and by a series of promotions was mustered out in July, 1865, as major of the Eighteenth New Hampshire. Having studied law, he began practice in his native city, but removed in 1868 to Niagara Falls, N. Y., and in 1872 to Lockport, N. Y. In 1882 he was elected judge of Niagara county court, his term of office being six years. He was married to Ellen S. Fifield of Concord, July 27, 1865. They had no children.
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