Brief Life History of Henry Emerson
When Henry Emerson Potter was born on 29 July 1827, in Western, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Anthony Potter, was 30 and his mother, Lucy Comstock, was 27. He married Amelia Davis on 12 December 1870. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Oakland, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States in 1850 and Wales, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 17 February 1889, in Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Wales, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Emerson Potter in household of Anthony Potter, "United States Census, 1850"
- Henry E. Potter, "BillionGraves Index"
- Henry E Potter, "Utah, Cemetery Abstracts"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Jefferson, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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