Brief Life History of Louis Arthur
When Louis Arthur Platt was born on 18 November 1905, in Mankato, Jewell, Kansas, United States, his father, Samuel L Platt, was 42 and his mother, Nancy Lueva Carter, was 36. He had at least 1 daughter with Amy Iza Loofbourrow. He lived in United States in 1949 and Esbon Township, Jewell, Kansas, United States in 1950. He died on 11 February 1976, in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Mankato, Jewell, Kansas, United States.
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- Lewis Platt, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louis Arthur Platt - Published information: birth-name: Louis Arthur Platt
- Arthur Louis Platt, "Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
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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