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DAVID POTTER, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Center county, Penn., July 1, 1838, where he was raised and educated until he was nineteen years of age. Subsequently he removed to Lafayette county, Wis., where he enlisted in 1861 in Company H, Third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, from which he was discharged because of disability in 1862. The subject of this sketch was married March 5, 1865, to Madore E. Budlong, who was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., May 14, 1847, and raised in Wisconsin. The names of their children are James, Fannie, and Laura. Both Mr. and Mrs. Potter have been members of the M. E. Church. His father, James, was a farmer in Pennsylvania, and died in April, 1855. His mother, Hannah, still lives with her children. Mr. Potter became a citizen of Jasper county soon after the war, in 1866, and is now one of her most prosperous farmers. His farm is situated in section 17, township 29, range 81, and contains one hundred and twenty acres, eighty acres of which is improved. He has forty acres in wheat averaging twenty-five bushels, seven hundred bushels of corn, also a fine orchard of one hundred and twenty-five bearing apple trees, and fifty peach trees. This farm is well located, and has good out-buildings and general improvements. Mr. Potter deals quite extensively in stock, and is a good neighbor, and withal a genial gentleman.