Lacrosse-Racine County WI Archives Biographies.....Platz, A. 1840 - 
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A. PLATZ, of the firm of Davis, Medary & Platz, proprietors of the La Crosse 
tannery, was born in Prussia in 1840, son of F. Platz, a tanner, who came to 
America with his family in 1855; went into the tanning business in Racine, 
Wis., in 1860, and still continues the business of that place. A. Platz 
learned the trade of his father in Germany, and was in partnership with him in 
Racine from 1860 till 1877, when he came to La Crosse and became a member of 
the present firm. He was married in Racine in 1867 to Miss Margaret Heck, and 
has three children - Minnie, Max and Albert.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 784.

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