Marin County Biographies

FRED A. PLANK

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Was born in Durham, Green county, New York, on May 
15, 1834.  In 1839 his parents moved to Fulton county, New York, and thence, in 
1845, to Victor, Ontario county, in that State.  They emigrated to Wisconsin and 
settled in Wheatland, Kenosha county, in 1848.  Here the subject of this memoir 
received his education at the common schools in that place.  After the death of 
his father, which occurred during his residence here, Mr. Plank learned the 
daguerreotype business, which he conducted in Wheatland on his own account, and 
by this means supported himself and widowed mother.  He married Betsey Ann 
Foster on December 29, 1859.  She was born in Oswego county, New York, on the 
19th of January, 1834.  Here their only child, Fred Foster, was born, on 
September 25, 1860.  They emigrated to this State, crossing the plains in 1861, 
and first settled at Knight�s Ferry, Stanislaus county, where they remained one 
year, then took up a residence in Petaluma, Sonoma county, where they lived five 
years.  The last year they resided here, Mr. Plank was proprietor of the City 
Hotel.  They next moved on a ranch in that county, remaining one year; thence to 
Nicasio township, Marin county, in 1869, where he lived two years, and then 
located in Tomales township, and in November, 1877, took up a residence in the 
village of Tomales, where he opened the �Plank House� in November, 1879, and is 
its proprietor at the present writing.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880