Brief Life History of Robert Ingersall
When Robert Ingersall Plattner was born on 4 February 1880, in Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States, his father, Edward Plattner, was 47 and his mother, Mary Ann Richmond Brown, was 27. He married Belle Mary McGuire on 10 August 1902, in Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Belmont Township, Otoe, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Benton Township, Fremont, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 20 November 1920, in Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States.
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- Robt E Platner, "United States Census, 1910"
- Robert I. Platner, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Robert Ingersoll Plattner, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German (Tyrol, Bavaria): from platte (dative platten) ‘ledge’ + the suffix -er for an inhabitant, hence a topographic name denoting someone who lived at a farm on a mountain ledge.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Platner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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