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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

IRA PLOTTS, merchant, Vanlue, born July 10, 1830, in Fairfield County, Ohio, is
a son of Gershom and Mary (Plotner) Plotts. natives of Pennsylvania, who came to
Ohio in 1800. Gershom Plotts was one of the pioneers of Fairfield County and
Hancock County, Ohio, and a soldier in the war of 1812, having enlisted in
Fairfield County. He was three times married and was the father of ten children,
eight of whom are still living: Hiram, Washington, Andrew J., John. William L.,
Ira, Oliver and Moses. In 1834 Ira Plotts, our subject, was brought to Hancock
County with his parents, who settled in Amanda Township on Section 16, near
Vanlue. Gershom Plotts remained in Amanda Township twenty years, and in 1854 he
removed to Michigan, where he died. Ira Plotts went to Michigan with his
parents, and in 1859 returned to Hancock County, Ohio, where he has since
remained. He married, in 1854, Mary J., daughter of George Morehart, of Amanda
Township, this county. To this union have been born ten children, five of whom
are living: Ella, wife of S. C. Chesebro; Etta, wife of J. V. Rice; Augusta,
wife of F. Cross; Alwilda J. and Sarah. In 1860 Mr. Plotts embarked in the
grocery business, adding in 1863 the dry goods branch, and has been engaged in
the grocery and dry goods business ever since. He has been a successful business
man. He has served as justice of the peace six years. He has a farm near Vanlue,
this county, on which he has passed a good portion of his time. In politics Mr.
Plotts is a Democrat; a member of the I. O. O. F.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Amanda Township




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