Pottawattamie county was fortunate in re-electing the Hon. L. F. Potter, whose ability, evidenced by his efficient work as chairman of the committee on telegraph, telephone and express, and as member of the following committees: Ways and means, code revision, banks and banking, municipal corporations, police regulations, and labor, served to make him one of the best known members of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly. He was especially interested in the encouragement of the beet sugar industry for Iowa, and was the author of house file No. 326. Levi Franklin Potter was born at Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, Wis., March 27, 1855. His parents, Levi Brigham and Kitty Wenzel Potter, were natives of New England, emigrating to Milwaukee county in 1839. He was educated in the common schools of Wauwatoso, and Ripon and Beloit colleges. In 1879 he came to Oakland, Iowa, and engaged in the mercantile business until the spring of 1884, when he entered the Citizens bank as a partner and cashier. The bank is now a state institution, of which he is still cashier. As merchant and banker, and public spirited citizen, Mr. Potter has been closely identified with the growth and prosperity of Oakland, which is well known as one of the most prosperous towns in Iowa, and of which he has twice been mayor. He has always been an active republican worker, belongs to the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders, and is an attendant and liberal supporter of the Congregational church. He was married in 1881.

Pottawattamie county was fortunate in re-electing the Hon. L. F. Potter, whose ability, evidenced by his efficient work as chairman of the committee on telegraph, telephone and express, and as member of the following committees: Ways and means, code revision, banks and banking, municipal corporations, police regulations, and labor, served to make him one of the best known members of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly. He was especially interested in the encouragement of the beet sugar industry for Iowa, and was the author of house file No. 326. Levi Franklin Potter was born at Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, Wis., March 27, 1855. His parents, Levi Brigham and Kitty Wenzel Potter, were natives of New England, emigrating to Milwaukee county in 1839. He was educated in the common schools of Wauwatoso, and Ripon and Beloit colleges. In 1879 he came to Oakland, Iowa, and engaged in the mercantile business until the spring of 1884, when he entered the Citizens bank as a partner and cashier. The bank is now a state institution, of which he is still cashier. As merchant and banker, and public spirited citizen, Mr. Potter has been closely identified with the growth and prosperity of Oakland, which is well known as one of the most prosperous towns in Iowa, and of which he has twice been mayor. He has always been an active republican worker, belongs to the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders, and is an attendant and liberal supporter of the Congregational Church. He was married in 1881.