When William Sheridan Potter Sr was born on 9 February 1892, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Nelson Potter, was 26 and his mother, Lavina Ellen Freeman, was 25. He married Pearl Marie Jackson in September 1914, in Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years and Fort Ripley, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States in 1950. He died on 20 May 1976, in Longview, Cowlitz, Washington, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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