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   Lloyd A. Pottenger Sr.
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   LLOYD A. POTTENGER. A great many Indiana people are familiar with the products if not the plant and grounds of the Pottenger Nursery, located on Route 52, seven miles northwest of the Circle at Indianapolis. Mr. Pottenger is an experienced nurseryman, and has built up an extensive business supplying all kinds of flowering and ornamental plants. His specialty is the growing of peonies, the main plant of which is located on ten acres of ground. In 1930 he purchased the Lowry Nursery, adjoining his place, consisting of fifty acres, all in general line in growing nursery stock.
   
   Mr. Pottenger was born in Kankakee, Illinois, April 23, 1887, and represents an old family of Northern Indiana. His great-grandfather Pottenger came to Indiana from Southern Ohio and was a pioneer minister. Mr. Pottenger's paternal grandparents were Wilson and Mary (Armstrong) Pottenger, Wilson Pottenger was born near Hamilton, Ohio, was brought to Indiana when a boy and as a young man studied medicine and practiced that profession with success and honor.
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   The father of Lloyd A. Pottenger was William T. Pottenger, who was born at LaPorte, Indiana.
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   They had a family of seven children; Belle, wife of John Walliscraft, of Chicago, Illinois; James, who married Grace Newton; Nellie, wife of Charles Woodruff; William A., who married Martha Livingston; Avery, who married Bertha Lyon; Lloyd A.; and Laura, who married Ed Shogren.
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   Lloyd A. Pottenger was educated in schools near the City of Kankakee, Illinois, completing his school work in 1907. For a time he was physical director at Pontiac, Illinois. Following that he was athletic director of Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois, taking his college work at the same time, and also took work in physical training with Y.M.C.A. College at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He then went to Spring Hill College at Mobile, Alabama, where he was physical director. During summer vacations he sold books and for a time acted as sales manager for a Chicago house, with territory in two states, Wisconsin and Northern Illinois.
   
   Mr. Pottenger left this work to engage in business for himself as a nurseryman, purchasing the Kankakee Nursery, which he operated, until coming to Indianapolis in 1922. He still owns the land on which the Kankakee Nursery is situated and is president of its operating company. Mr. Pottenger is a Republican, member of the Masonic Lodge and Methodist Episcopal Church.
   
   He married, April 4, 1914, Miss Lola Graves, daughter of Elizur and Arvilla (Slauson) Graves, of Madison, Wisconsin. Her father was in the grain and live stock business. Mrs. Pottenger graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1910. They have six children: Lester, Lawrence, Richard, Doris, Miriam, and Lloyd, Jr.