His uncle was Samuel Blatchford, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Due to his health, he left Harvard and thereafter began attending Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with an A.B.
[7] After graduating from Cambridge, Potter began his career with the firm of Breese and Smith, stockbrokers, in 1890.
[9][10] After the Bahamas, he was transferred to a port in France, but resigned due to ill health, and returned to America, where he died within a year.
[17] In 1903, while he was in Newport, his wife was staying at a boarding house at 63 West 36th Street where she suffered acute morphine poisoning forcing her to be taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.