The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1001 

FRED B. PLATH.

Fred B. Plath is an active factor in business circles of Yakima as the secretary
and treasurer of the Washington Fruit & Produce Company, with which he has thus
been identified since its organization in 1916. His birth occurred in Sleepy
Eye, Minnesota, on the 4th of September, 1881, his parents being Herman and
Louise (Lang) Plath, who removed to Yakima, Washington, in the year 1909. Here
the mother passed away in 1911, and the fattier on November 29, 1918, at the
venerable age of ninety-one years, less seven days.

Fred B. Plath attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education and
following his graduation from the high school entered his father's flour mill in
Minnesota. He was a young man of twenty-eight years when he came with his
parents to Yakima in 1909 and here he secured a position as bookkeeper in a
bank, being thus employed for six months. Subsequently he spent a similar period
in the service of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, while later he became
associated with M. J. Hafener in the wholesale fruit business. In 1916, in
connection with M. M. Pike, these two gentlemen organized the Washington Fruit &
Produce Company, of which Mr. Plath has since been secretary and treasurer. His
efforts have contributed in no small measure to the continued growth and
success of the enterprise and he has won a place among the representative and
substantial business men of Yakima.

On the 25th of December, 1917, Mr. Plath was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Gale McMechan, of Yakima. In politics he maintains an independent
course, supporting men and measures rather than party, while fraternally he is
identified with the Modern Woodmen of America. His many excellent qualities
commend him to the confidence and esteem of all who know him and he has gained a
gratifying measure of prosperity during the years of his residence in Yakima.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.