In 1902 in Chicago, Potter was married to Caroline Morton (1882–1952), the eldest daughter of
Paul Morton, the
U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President
Theodore Roosevelt, and Charlotte "Lottie" ( Goodrich) Morton. Caroline's sister,
Pauline Joy Morton, was the wife of
James H. Smith Jr.,
Charles H. Sabin, and
Dwight F. Davis. Her uncles,
Joy Morton and
Mark Morton, were the founders of
Morton Salt. In 1914, they rented 177 East 71st Street from
Douglas L. Elliman. In 1917, they purchased 6
East 77th Street from Edmund Coffin (which he acquired from
Charles Henry Marshall's widow). Before they divorced in
Paris in October 1922, they were the parents of: • Jean Morton Potter (1903–1957), who married architect and painter Frederic August Soldwedel in 1924. They divorced and she married Edmund Coffin Stout Jr. in 1934. He died in 1943 and she married Horace Ransom Bigelow Allen, who had previously been engaged to
Edith Ewing Bouvier and married to
Kiki Preston, in 1947. He remarried before his death in 1961. • Charlotte Morton Potter (1905–1972), who married golfer Reginald M. Lewis in 1926. They divorced in 1930, and she married stockbroker Roy Franklin Atwood, a son of Herbert Franklin Atwood, in 1934. They divorced and she married Robert Jennings. They divorced and she married Thomas Wynward Sabine
Pasley, a son of Thomas Hamilton Sabine Pasley (a grandson of
Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, 2nd Baronet), in 1957. • Pauline Morton Potter (1917–1917), who died in infancy. After their divorce, Caroline married
Harry F. Guggenheim in February 1923. After the wedding, his father gave them 90 acres in Long Island where they had architects
Frederick J. Sterner along with
Polhemus & Coffin build Falaise "in the style of a 13th-century Norman manor house". She sold 6
East 77th Street to
George Arents in 1925. They had a daughter,
Diane Guggenheim. After being separate for two years, they divorced in July 1939, and she married Williams before her death in 1952.
Second marriage Potter remarried, on March 10, 1923, to Rose Lee
Saltonstall (1892–1946), a daughter of Philip Leverett Saltonstall (a son of
Leverett Saltonstall II) and Frances Anne Fitch ( Sherwood) Saltonstall (a daughter of
Thomas Dubois Sherwood). After Rose's father died in 1919, her mother remarried to Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait in 1936. Rose's brother, Philip Leverett Saltonstall Jr., married actress
Maxine Jennings, and her sister, Katherine Leverett Saltonstall, married Philip B.
Weld. Another sister, Frances Sherwood Saltonstall, married George von Lengerke Meyer Jr. (son of
George von Lengerke Meyer) and Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool. In addition to his New York City residence, Potter had a residences on the
North Shore of Long Island, and a plantation in Georgia known as "Blue Springs Plantation". Potter first assembled the plantation in the 1920s before he commissioned
Hentz, Adler & Shutze of Atlanta to design the main house in 1930. After his death,
Edward Vason Jones of Albany was hired to add
Classical Revival dependencies. His wife died at 66
East 79th Street, their 16-room duplex apartment in Manhattan, aged 54, on November 29, 1946. Potter died on January 2, 1957 at his plantation in
Albany, Georgia. He was buried at
Locust Valley Cemetery in
Locust Valley, New York.
Descendants Through his daughter Jean, he was a grandfather of Pamela Soldwedel (1926–2015), who married Carlton T. Clark Jr. in 1948. She later married banker Richard D. Barrett. ==References==