Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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E. L. POTTER, Los Angeles 
 
Born Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1866. Educated Public schools of native state. Long 
known as a leading hotel man; from 1902 to Feb. 14, 1909, proprietor Hotel 
Clarendon, Sea Breeze, Fla., patronized by wealthy and cultivated tourists. 
Hotel burned on date named (having been expanded from fifty to four hundred 
rooms), and July, 1909, Mr. Potter came to Los Angeles and bought �The Van Nuys� 
business and equipment of Milo M. Potter, veteran hotel man, for $150,000, 
leasing building of I. N. Van Nuys for twelve and a half years. The Van Nuys 
Hotel contains two hundred guest rooms, one hundred private baths, was built 
fourteen years ago and is strictly modern. Mr. Potter closed its purchase July 
19, 1909. Mem. B. P. O. E. Married, Sept. 29, 1903, Jessie Buell, daughter of A. 
C. Buell, Evanston, Ill.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P. 36 
Transcribed by Pat Howard