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Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Michigan
Record Publishing Company, Chicago - 1895

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        JOHN H. PLETT, a worthy German-American citizen of Cadillac,
     is proprietor of a meat-market, and numbers among his customers
     many of the leading families of the place.  He is always cour-
     teous and accomodating, and as he keeps only the best qualities
     of meats, enjoys a lucrative trade.  He is a man of good busi-
     ness ability, and as the result of his industry is the owner of
     one hundred and sixty acres of timber-land, and a farm comprising
     forty-six acres near the city limits, in addition to his own resi-
     dence and business property.
        The birth of our subject occurred in the province of Schleswig-
     Holstein, Germany, September 18, 1854.  His parents were JURGEN
     FREDERICK and MARIE ANNA (LUTH) PLETT, who were likewise natives
     of the Fatherland.  They had but two children, HANS JURGEN (now
     called FRED) and JOHN H.  The father was a gardener for many years,
     and died in Germany in the year 1892, at the good old age of eighty
     years.  His wife, who was born in 1823, is still living at her old
     home in Germany, and is a member of the German Lutheran Church, to
     which her husband also belonged.  Her father, JOHN LUTH, was born
     in 1795, in Germany, and died in 1889.  He was a tailor by trade,
     and for a number of years was a soldier in the German army, parti-
     cipating in the wars of his country.  Religiously he was a Lutheran.
     FREDERICK PLETT, the
     
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     paternal grandfather of our subject, died in Germany at an advanced
     age, after leading an active life as a farmer.  His family consisted
     of two sons and two daughters.
        The boyhood and youth of JOHN H. PLETT were passed in the country
     of his birth.  He received a good common-school education, and early
     became possessed of the idea of emigrating to the United States.
     When in his twentieth year, he set sail for America, and located in
     Grand Rapids, Mich., where he was engaged in the butchering business
     until 1876.  In that year he came to Cadillac, and has since been
     engaged in business here.  The first year after his arrival he was
     employed at a fixed salary and managed to lay aside a considerable
     sum, which proved the capital for his future establishment.
        February 28, 1880, Mr. PLETT was married to Mrs. AMELIA ANDERSON.
     She is a daughter of JOHAN ANDREW and ANNIE (MUNSTATTER) COLSON.
     Mr. and Mrs. PLETT have become the parents of six children, two sons
     and four daughters, who are as follows in order of birth: AGNES MARY,
     MAY CAROLINE, ALVENA M., WALTER F., GLADYS H. and JOHN GEORGE.
        Mr. PLETT is identified with the Odd Fellows' society, belonging
     to Viola Lodge No. 259, and to Cadillac Encampment No. 93.  He is
     also connected with the Grand Rapids Arbeiter Unterstutz Verein.
     In company with his wife, he attends the Lutheran Church, in the
     faith of which he was reared, but is not a member of the congregation.
     
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