ALEXANDER PLATE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 648 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

ALEXANDER PLATE, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Burlington; he was born in
Germany, in November, 1820; in 1831, he went to New York City, where he
lived till 1848, when he came to Wisconsin, and located in Burlington
Township, where he engaged farming, which he has energetically followed
ever since. He married in New York City, in 1846, Miss Mary Cotz; they
have four children -- Adolph, born Nov. 13, 1848; Wilhelm, May 27, 1850;
Charlie, Nov. 5, 1853; Henry, Aug. 13, 1856; their mother died Nov. 26,
1S67. Wilhelm married, Nov. 28, 1872, Miss Josephine Sevey, a native of
Wheatland Township; they had one child, born Nov. 10, 1873; died March
1, 1879.