When Dr. Charles Angus Platt MD was born on 25 June 1904, in LaGrange, Bloomfield Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States, his father, Samuel Solomon Platt, was 40 and his mother, Martha “Mattie” Morrison, was 33. He lived in Howell Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Howell, Livingston, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 22 December 1962, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Howell, Livingston, Michigan, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
The Upper Twin Falls Bridge which connected Breitung Township, Michigan, to Florence County, Wisconsin. The through-truss bridge spanned the Menominee River and was completed in 1910. The bridge was closed to through traffic in 1971 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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