When Franklin Benjamin Platt Sr was born on 13 October 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Francis Platt Jr., was 32 and his mother, Eliza Hester, was 24. He married Carrie Cornelia Harmon on 11 October 1883, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 14 March 1928, in his hometown, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: Middle English plat, platte ‘flat surface’ (Anglo-Norman French plat, plast), often with the senses ‘footbridge’ or ‘plot of land’. The name may be topographic, for one who lived near such a feature, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Platt in Manchester or Platt Bridge in Wigan (both Lancashire).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German platt ‘flat’.
German: variant of Platte 3.
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