Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Potter, E. L. 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

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.


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ROBERT J. BURDETTE
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THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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