Maude Potter

Female1928–2017

Brief Life History of Maude

Maude Potter was born in 1928, in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She died in 2017, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 89.

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Elmo Hassell
1928–2017
Maude Potter
1928–2017

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    World Events (3)

    1929

    Age 1

    13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

    1931

    Age 3

    The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

    1944

    Age 16

    The company eventually sold the island to the United States in 1944, during the German occupation of Denmark.

    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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