When Robert Ansel Potter was born on 29 January 1840, in Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Tertius Daniel Potter, was 46 and his mother, Esther Barnes Frisbie, was 33. He married Lucy M. Manville on 18 May 1869, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States for about 40 years and Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1920. He died on 24 March 1929, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
Possible Related Names“HON. ROBERT ANSEL POTTER, a prominent resident and real-estate dealer of Bristol, was born in Thomaston, Conn., Jan. 29, 1840, son of Tertius D. and Esther B. (Frisbie) Potter. Our subject's father, …
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