Marin-Stanislaus-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Plank, Fred A. 1834 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Fred A. Plank. Was born in Durham, Green county, New York, on May 15, 1834. In
1839 his parents moved to Fulton county, New York, and thence, in 1845, to
Victor, Ontario county, in that State. They emigrated to Wisconsin and settled
in Wheatland, Kenosha county, in 1848. Here the subject of this memoir received
his education at the common schools in that place. After the death of his
father, which occurred during his residence here, Mr. Plank learned the
daguerreotype business, which he conducted in Wheatland on his own account, and
by this means supported himself and widowed mother. He married Betsey Ann Foster
on December 29, 1859. She was born in Oswego county, New York, on the 19th of
January, 1834. Here their only child, Fred Foster, was born, on September 25,
1860. They emigrated to this State, crossing the plains in 1861, and first
settled at Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus county, where they remained one year, then
took up a residence in Petaluma, Sonoma county, where they lived five years. The
last year they resided here, Mr. Plank was proprietor of the City Hotel. They
next moved on a ranch in that county, remaining one year; thence to Nicasio
township, Marin county, in 1869, where he lived two years, and then located in
Tomales township, and in November, 1877, took up a residence in the village of
Tomales, where he opened the "Plank House" in November, 1879, and is its
proprietor at the present writing.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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