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{{Short description|American businessman and industrialist}}
{{Infobox person
|name = William Plankinton
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1843|11|7}}
|birth_place = [[Allegheny, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1905|
|occupation = Businessman and industrialist
|spouse = Mary Ella Woods
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[[File:1909 Postal Telegraph Cable Company stamp.jpg|thumb|upright 0.8|Postal Telegraph stamp 1909]]
[[File:John Plankinton and William Plankinton mansions in 1886.jpg|right|thumb|upright 1.3450|Line drawings of the mansions of John Plankinton (left) and William's (right), by James Smith Buck about 1886{{sfn|Buck|1886|p=178}}]]
'''William Plankinton''' (November 7, 1843 –
Plankinton was associated with the Milwaukee museum, public library, industrial exposition and Chamber of Commerce. As a businessman he was a banker. He was implicated in a scandal of fraud and embezzlement, for which he was sued.
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Plankinton was employed by his father after he graduated from the Milwaukee college. He soon became a partner in his father's pork and beef packing company. He helped to establish branches in Chicago, Kansas City and New York.{{sfn|Watrous|1909|p=20}} The firm became known in 1893 as the Plankinton Packing Company when the Cudahy brothers moved their operations south to a site just outside of Milwaukee.{{sfn|Apps|2015|p=210}} Plankinton's main competitors were the meat packing companies of Chicago.{{sfn|Bowman|1948|p=175}}
Plankinton helped found and organize several companies, including the Milwaukee-based [[Johnson Controls#History|Johnson Electric Company]].<ref name=WSJ4_11_1985>{{cite news |last=Martin|first=Chuck |title=Johnson Controls a model for future |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58154095/ |newspaper= Wisconsin State Journal |location=Madison, Wisconsin|date= April 11, 1985 |via= [[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref> He founded and was part owner of the Western Portland Cement company in [[Yankton, South Dakota]].{{sfn|Wilson|Fiske|Dick|1915|p=997}} Plankinton held several public offices and was a director of the Milwaukee museum, the city public library, and the Milwaukee industrial exposition.{{sfn|Wilson|Fiske|Dick|1915|p=997}} He was also associated with Layton art gallery and the local Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=WisSociety>{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Ny:True,Ro:0,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1220&dsRecordDetails=R:CS4410&dsDimensionSearch=D:%22William+Plankinton%22+,Dxm:All,Dxp:3&dsCompoundDimensionSearch=D:%22William+Plankinton%22+,Dxm:All,Dxp:3 |title=Brief biography of John Plankinton, a meat packer and businessman|website=Historical Essay of Plankinton, John (1820–1891) |date=22 January 2015 |publisher= Wisconsin Historical Society|access-date=January 29, 2017 }}</ref> Plankinton was one of the financial backers of the [[Postal Telegraph Company]] that involved telegraph lines in Wisconsin and Michigan.<ref name=TON12_17_1895>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Postal Telegraph Co. |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58152064/ |newspaper= The Oshkosh Northwestern |page=2|location=Oshkosh, Wisconsin|date= December 17, 1895 |via= [[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref>
Plankinton became vice-president of the Plankinton Bank in 1891 upon [[John Plankinton|his father]]'s death.<ref name=BankFailure>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=CLOSED ITS DOORS |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8672098// |newspaper= Wichita Beacon|location=Wichita, Kansas|date= June 1, 1893 |via= [[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref> He was involved with settling the affairs when the bank failed in 1893.<ref name=succumbed>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Finally Succumbed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8672168// |newspaper=Sedalia Weekly Bazoo |location=Sedali,Missouri |date= June 6, 1893 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref><ref name=indicted>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Many Indicted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8672382// |newspaper=Logansport Reporter |location=Logansport, Indiana |date= July 13, 1893 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref><ref name=BankUnder>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Bank Failure / The Plankinton Bank at Milwaukee Suspends |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8672608// |newspaper=Parsons Daily Sun |location= Parsons, Kansas |date= June 2, 1893 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref> The bank crisis involved a scandal of fraud and embezzlement in which Plankinton was implicated.<ref name=ChicagoChron8_15_1897>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= May yet have to pay |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58186207/ |newspaper= The ChicagoChronicle |location= Chicago, Illinois|date= August 15, 1897 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref> He was sued to pay back all that was owed to the depositors and creditors.<ref name=MRMICR7_22_1893>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= A Judge at the bar |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58127165/ |newspaper= Montreal River Miner and Iron County Republican |location= Hurley, Wisconsin|date= July 22, 1893 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref><ref name=PDD9_26_1894>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= To arrest F.T. Day |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58128570/ |newspaper= Portage Daily Democrat |location= Portage, Wisconsin|date= September 26, 1894 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref><ref name=TON8_9_1899>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Plankinton sued |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58130713/ |newspaper= The Oshkosh Northwestern |location= Oshkosh, Wisconsin|date= August 9, 1899 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}} }}</ref>
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