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LEMUEL R. BOLTER was born in Richland County, Ohio, July 27, 1834.  He
received a college education and taught for a short time.  In 1852 he made
the overland trip to California, remaining there two years.  He returned to
the States in 1854, taught in Michigan and studied law.  Mr. Bolter became a
resident of Iowa in 1863, locating on a farm in Harrison County.  In 1866 he
was admitted to the bar and the same year was elected Representative in the
House of the Eleventh General Assembly.  He was a member of the House of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth General Assemblies and a
member of the Senate in the Twenty-frist, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eight General Assemblies.  He
enjoyed the distinction of having served more terms in the Iowa Legislature
than any other citizen, having been a member twenty-two years in the
aggregate.  Mr. Bolter was nominated by the Democrats of the Eight District
for Congress in 1876 but was defeated.  He was a life-long Democrat and one
of the leaders of his party in the State for a quarter of a century.  He died
on the 29th of April, 1901.

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