Lewis Alexander Platts was born in Clarke county, Ohio.

The evidence

• “Lewis Alexander Platts, who for many years has been one of the foremost men of the Seventh-Day Baptist denomination, is a native of Clarke county, Ohio, and was born February 21, 1840. He is the eldest of five children born to David Rittenhouse and Angeline (Davis) Platts, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Virginia.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 362 / book p. 857

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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