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    John Plankinton (March 11, 1820 – March 29, 1891) was an American businessman. He is noted for expansive real estate developments in Milwaukee, including...
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    The John Plankinton statue is a six foot (1.8 m) lifelike representation of the businessman and industrialist. It took the sculptor Richard Henry Park...
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    Anne Plankinton (July 27, 1853 – 1923) was an American philanthropist in the early 20th century, the daughter of Milwaukee businessman John Plankinton. She...
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    Plankinton is a city in and the county seat of Aurora County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 781 at the 2020 census. Plankinton sprang...
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    William Plankinton Mansion (also known as the William Plankinton House) was built in 1876 by the millionaire meatpacking entrepreneur John Plankinton and...
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    Chicken Ranch is adjacent to another legal brothel, Sheri's Ranch. Walter Plankinton opened the Nevada Chicken Ranch in 1976, as close to Las Vegas as legally...
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    D. Armour joined with John Plankinton (the founder of the Layton and Plankinton Packing Company in 1852) to establish Plankinton, Armour and Company. Together...
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    residence for Elizabeth Plankinton. Built between 1886 and 1888 by John Plankinton for his daughter as a wedding gift, it cost at least $100,000 (equivalent...
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    encompasses the former Plankinton Arcade with many of its original features still intact including the statue of John Plankinton in the center of the circular...
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    at the Plankinton and Armour meat packing plant in the Menomonee Valley, becoming the superintendent in 1874. In 1888, the owner, John Plankinton, transferred...
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    partnered with John Plankinton in the meatpacking industry, creating the company Plankinton, Armour & Company. Philip helped Plankinton start up "a new...
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    sued. Plankinton was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1843. He was the son of John Plankinton and Elizabeth Bracken Plankinton. While...
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    Weaver (January 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: John Bond Trevor House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic...
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  • four-story store at the corner of Wisconsin and Grand from local merchant John Plankinton. The Gimbels store was the largest dry goods vendor in the city, with...
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    1852, Frederick joined John Plankinton to form a partnership for the packing of pork and beef under the name of Layton & Plankinton. With a loan of $3,000...
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    period was a crayon portrait, eight feet long, of John Plankinton, owner and operator of the Plankinton Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For this piece of work...
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    by the wealthy of the nineteenth century. He did a marble bust of John Plankinton, an astute businessman who founded the meat industry in Wisconsin and...
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  • Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (d. 1893) 1820 – John Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist (d. 1891)...
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    the Menomonee Valley was a critical supply point for the likes of John Plankinton, Frederick Layton and Philip Armour. Packing houses populated the valley...
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    daughter, commissioned by Elizabeth Plankinton in honor of her father, prominent 19th-century businessman, John Plankinton. It took three years for her to...
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    Milwaukee at the time of construction. Later owned and altered by John Plankinton. Annexed in 1903 to the neighboring building of the Milwaukee National...
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    previous congregations to form Calvary. Calvary's first officers were John Plankinton, James B. Bradford, and Samuel C. West - all wealthy businessmen. They...
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    After Patrick Cudahy's meat-packing partnership with John Plankinton ended, Patrick and his brother John bought land south of Milwaukee to start a new meat-packing...
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    Monument Jacques Marquette You Rise Above the World The Last Alarm John Plankinton North Side Celebrating the Arts Christian Wahl Elk On Watch Pattern...
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  • – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Chicago) Richard Henry Park – John Plankinton statue Jeronimo Sunol – Statue of Christopher Columbus (Central Park...
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  • the Art in Trade Club Medal for the School of Art League of New York, the John F. Stevens Monument in Montana, and the Columbia Broadcasting Guest Award...
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    dropped out of school at age 14 and found a job working at Layton and Plankinton, Milwaukee, an area meat packing plant. He worked his way up the ranks...
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    1873. The three county commissioners met on August 29, 1881, and named Plankinton the county seat, an act which was ratified by voters in November 1882...
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    Monument Jacques Marquette You Rise Above the World The Last Alarm John Plankinton North Side Celebrating the Arts Christian Wahl Elk On Watch Pattern...
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    courthouse (1873–1939), private residences of Alexander Mitchell and John Plankinton, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He died in 1887 at age 51. The sculpture...
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