BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: "A. Platner, proprietor of the Mukwonago House; born in the town of Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., April 7, 1828; lived thirty-eight years as a farmer in his native town, and was two years in a mill in Cherry Valley Village; came to Mukwonago in 1868, bought the hotel, kept it until April, 1874, leased it two years for $1,800, and has kept it since. Married Miss Sally A. Shaul, of the same town, by whom he has an only son, Aaron H., born Feb. 12, 1853, now his business partner. The Platners' are Democrats, and take much interest in breeding and owning good horses; two large barns will accommodate seventy-five horses, and the hotel is well kept and patronized; Mr. P. owns the fleet and hardy stallion, Robert Bonner, and the seven-eighth Clyde stallion, Young British Champion; his dam was by Old Farmer's Delight, he by Marquis of Clydesdale, imported from Scotland; Old Farmer's Delight took six first prizes, and Young British Champion took three in 1879; this horse weighs 1,550 pounds, stands sixteen hands and one inch high, and as a draft stallion has few equals and no superiors in the State."
SOURCE: "History of Waukesha County" by Western Historical Company, Chicago 1880, page 972.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA972&
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CHILDREN:
i. Aaron H. Platner, b.12-Feb-1853 Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI., d.????.
SOURCE: "History of Waukesha County" by Western Historical Company, Chicago 1880, page 972.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA972&
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CHILDREN:
i. Aaron H. Platner, b.12-Feb-1853 Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI., d.????.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: "A. Platner, proprietor of the Mukwonago House; born in the town of Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., April 7, 1828; lived thirty-eight years as a farmer in his native town, and was two years in a mill in Cherry Valley Village; came to Mukwonago in 1868, bought the hotel, kept it until April, 1874, leased it two years for $1,800, and has kept it since. Married Miss Sally A. Shaul, of the same town, by whom he has an only son, Aaron H., born Feb. 12, 1853, now his business partner. The Platners' are Democrats, and take much interest in breeding and owning good horses; two large barns will accommodate seventy-five horses, and the hotel is well kept and patronized; Mr. P. owns the fleet and hardy stallion, Robert Bonner, and the seven-eighth Clyde stallion, Young British Champion; his dam was by Old Farmer's Delight, he by Marquis of Clydesdale, imported from Scotland; Old Farmer's Delight took six first prizes, and Young British Champion took three in 1879; this horse weighs 1,550 pounds, stands sixteen hands and one inch high, and as a draft stallion has few equals and no superiors in the State."
SOURCE: "History of Waukesha County" by Western Historical Company, Chicago 1880, page 972.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA972&
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CHILDREN:
i. Aaron H. Platner, b.12-Feb-1853 Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI., d.????.
SOURCE: "History of Waukesha County" by Western Historical Company, Chicago 1880, page 972.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA972&
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CHILDREN:
i. Aaron H. Platner, b.12-Feb-1853 Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI., d.????.
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