Joseph Benjamin Potter Jr

Brief Life History of Joseph Benjamin

When Joseph Benjamin Potter Jr was born on 3 July 1922, in Terreton, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, his father, Joseph Benjamin Potter Sr, was 36 and his mother, Lowvicy Staley, was 25. He married Dorine Joy Gerard on 3 August 1948, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States. He lived in Mud Lake, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 2001. He died on 4 December 2009, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Fielding Memorial Park Cemetery, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.

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Joseph Benjamin Potter Jr
1922–2009
Dorine Joy Gerard
1930–2003
Marriage: 3 August 1948

Sources (30)

  • Joe Potter, Jr, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Benjamin Potter Jr - Government record: birth-name: Joseph Benjamin Potter Jr
  • Joseph B., Jr. Potter, "United States Western States Marriage Index"

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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.

In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar ), and probably also of cognates from some other languages, e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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