AUGUST PLONDKE, farmer; P. O. Clayton; owns 500 acres of land, valued at $15 per acre; born in Prussia in 1824; came to America in 1851; settled in Grant Co. in 1856; married Augusta Kuehler, a native of Germany, and they have five children - Bertha, Loussia, Louis, Charles and Fred.
This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.