Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Platt, Walter S. July 24, 1846 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

WALTER S. PLATT, editor of The Indicator, Fremont, was born in Mansfield, 
Ohio, July 24, 1846.  His 

parents, Thomas and Ann Platt, were natives of New Jersey.  He left home at 14 
years of age, proceeded to 

Angola, Ind., and remained a little over a year, learning the printer's 
trade.  He then enlisted in the 

9th Ohio Cavalry and served about 18 months.  After his return he went to 
Kendallville, Ind., where he 

remained about five years in a printing office.  In 1870 he came to Pentwater, 
Mich., where he resided two 

and a half years, and was afterward editor of the Pentwater Times about nine 
months.  He then came to 

Fremont, this county, and in the spring of 1874 established The Indicator, 
which he still edits.

He was married at Kendallville, Ind., April 25, 1868, to Laura A. Bates, a 
native of Indiana, and they 

have two children, Jennie and Pauline.  Mr. Platt was appointed Postmaster of 
Fremont in 1875, and held 

the office about eight years, when he resigned.  He is a member of the Masonic 
Order, and is Adjutant of 

Henry Dobson Post, 182, Grand Army of the Republic.  Politically, he is a 
radical Republican.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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