Representative Levi Franklin Potter View All Years

HON. LEVI FRANKLIN POTTER

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee which was appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and services of the late L. F. Potter of Shelby county, beg leave to submit the following:

Levi Franklin Potter was born at Wawatosa, Wisconsin, March 27, 1855, and died at his home in Harlan, Iowa, April 8, 1928.

Mr. Potter was educated in the schools and colleges of his native state and in 1876 made a trip to Pottawattamie county of this state where he received his first impressions of the possibilities of western Iowa.

He located at Oakland, Iowa, and represented Pottawattamie county in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh General Assemblies of the state legislature and in the special session in 1897, which met to completely codify the laws of the state; and was also chairman of the ways and means committee. Mr. Potter's activities since he came to his adopted state have been many and varied.

If any particular line of endeavor should be used to classify his activities, it would be that of banking, and many people owe their start in life to his wise counsel, his financial aid and his foresight in affairs of finances.

He was elected to the presidency of the State Bankers Association in 1903, and served creditably to himself and the association.

He was a member of the Congregational church, and it can be truly said that the church is richer, not only in a material sense, but from that of brotherly love. He was also a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and passed in that organization into the Knight Templar and Shrine degrees.

There are left to mourn his loss his wife, Mrs. Stella Grace Potter, and his son.

Due to his business acumen his holdings in land ran into the hundreds of acres.

His work is done. It is recorded today in the history, in the statutes, and in the affections of the people of the state in which he lived and died, and which he loved so well. He was one of the last of the old oaks, sturdy, steadfast and true to all in which he believed and held convictions.

He has finished his course and he has kept the faith as he conceived that faith. The last chapter of his life has been written, and the book is closed. It can be truthfully said of him, “Well done.”

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-third General Assembly, That in the passing of Honorable Levi Franklin Potter, this Assembly express its realization of the loss of one of the leaders in the state, a man of strong character and sterling worth, a man of high ideals in Christian living, and the House would tender by this resolution its sympathy to the family who survive.

Be It Further Resolved, That a duly enrolled copy of this resolution be forwarded to the family of the deceased.

WILBER F. HUBBARD,

GEO. E. MILLER,

HARRY M. GREENE,

Committee

Unanimously adopted April 8, 1929.