Sacramento County
Biographies
ELKEN J. PLATO
ELKEN J. PLATO.—An efficient official
of the well-governed municipality of Sacramento who seems to enjoy exceptional
popularity, doubtless due in part to his agreeable relations with many people
of various stations and occupations in life, is Elken
J. Plato, the city purchasing agent, who is a native son, and has always been
in such close tough with things Californian that he thoroughly understands the
ideals and the spirit of the Golden State.
He was born at San Francisco, on February 9, 1890,
the son of Joseph Frank and Mildred (Isaacs) Plato, the latter also a native of
the bay city. His father was born at Buffalo,
N. Y., and came to California first about 1865, and he
and Miss Isaacs were married at San Francisco,
where both are now comfortably living.
Elken J. Plato included the courses of the high school in
the public school curricula he enjoyed, and then worked as a clerk in the
Anglo-California Bank, now the Anglo London
& Paris Bank. After four years’ service there, in which he won recognition
for both ability and fidelity, in 1911 he joined the Natomas
Company of California, and remained with them until 1922, starting as first
assistant to the time keeper, and working his way up through various positions
until, in 1914, he was in the purchasing agent’s department, where he spent two
years. Then he joined the United States Army, was assigned to the 85th
Aero Squadron, and saw several months of service in the actual war zones, in England
and France. On June 12, 1922, he was appointed to the
position of responsibility which he now fills with such ability and
satisfaction to all concerned.
Mr.
Plato was married, in 1920, to Miss Helen, K. Briggs, the daughter of C. M.
Briggs, who long had charge of the Western Pacific Railroad shops at Stockton.
They have two children, a son named Roy Templar, and a daughter named Joan. Mr.
Plato is a member of Sunset Parlor, N. S. G. W., and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and the American Legion. In politics, he is an independent.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 906. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.