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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, Margin county, in 1869, where he lived two years, and then located in Tamales
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.
From:
History of Marin County, California
Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1880
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