Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 676
CHARLES F. PLATH

Charles F. PLATH, a farmer, living on section 5, Magnolia Township, was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, October 19, 1856, and in the autumn of 1857 his parents came to America, and remained in the city of Cleveland until November, 1879, when our subject came to Harrison County, working by the month for one year, and then bought one hundred and twenty acres of partly improved land. He went to work on this land and improved it and in 1886 built a house 16x26 feet, one story and a half high, and a little later on built a barn, sheds and other outbuildings, and now has a finely improved farm, with sixty-nine acres under the plow, while the balance is in meadow and pasture land, and all the property that he possesses he has made by his own exertion.

He was married April 3, 1883, in Magnolia Township, to Miss Dora VOHS, and they are the parents of five children--Julia W., Lena H., Emma A., Dora W., and Mattie L.

Mrs. PLATH was born in Hanover, Germany, January 1, 1864, and when a small girl her parents removed to America, remained one year in Jackson County, Iowa, and then came to Harrison County, settling in Calhoun Township.

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