George E and Kate Platts
From the Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, published by the John M Gresman Company, Chicago-Philadelphia 1896
GEORGE E PLATTS, MD, a graduate of Denison University of Granville, Ohio and of the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, a druggist and well known business of Bellevue, was born in the town of Dent, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 6, 1854 and is a son of David G and Hannah Ann (Wood) Platts, both of whom were natives of Bridgeton, New Jersey. They came to Hamilton County, Ohio in 1834 where they lived until three or four years prior to Mr. Platts death in 1892, when they removed to Bellevue, Kentucky, the present home of Mrs. Platts, who is greatly advanced in years. Mr. Platts was a farmer in Ohio for nearly sixty years and was a quiet and unpretentious citizen, a man of intelligence and culture and an upright Christian gentleman who commanded the respect and confidence of his neighbors. He was a Republican in politics, having decided convictions and was free to express his sentiments; but he was not an office seeker, or in any sense a politician. His antecedents were of French-German extraction.
George E Platts was educated in the common school of Dent, at the Denison University of Granville, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1876, and prepared for the medical profession in the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, graduating in 1882.
He practiced medicine for one year in Cheviot, Hamilton County, Ohio; and in 1883 engaged in the drug business in the thriving little city of Bellevue, a business which as grown in proportion to the growth of the population of the place. Thoroughly equipped for the responsible business of the pharmacist, Dr. Platts has commanded the confidence of his patrons. His drug store requiring all of his time he has abandoned the professional work of the practicing physician.
He takes a lively interest in the prosperity of Bellevue and deals to some extent in real estate. He is particularly interested in the public schools and has served as school examiner, an office for which he is qualified in an eminent degree. He is a Republican but is devoted to his business and has no aspirations for political preferment.
Dr. Platts was married in 1883 to Kate Davis, daughter of Shipley Davis and Harriet Cullom of Hamilton County, Ohio, and they have one son Charles Gilman Platts. Mrs. Platts is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and assists her husband in his business, in which capacity she is thoroughly engaged.