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(1902), in Brookline, Mass. His architectural works include Maxwell public library. Rockville, Conn., anil Uichinond Beach Park. Stat en Island, N.Y. His paintings include: Interior of Fish- Houses: Fishing Boats: Provincial Fisliiug Vil- lage ( 188-2): Old Houses near Bruges (1883); D€ve}i- ter, Holland (188.*)); Quay des Orfrevres, Paris (1886); Dieiype (1888).

PLATT, Jonas, jurist, was born in Pough- keepsie, N'.Y., June 30, 1769; son of Judge Zeph- aniah Piatt (q.v.). He began the practice of law in 1790. removing to Whitesboro, N.Y.,in 1791. He served in the state Jissenibly, 1796; was a rep- resentative in the 6th congress. 1799-1801; was the defeated candidate for governor of the state against Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins, 1810; a state senator. 1810-13; a member of the council, 1813, and justice of the supreme court of the state of New York. 1814-23. He engaged in the practice of law in Utica. X.Y.. and in New York city, 1828-33. an.l died in Peru. N.Y.. Feb. 22, 1834.

PLATT, Or\'ille Hitchcock, senator, was born in Washington. Conn.. July 19, 1827; son of Daniel G. and Almira (Hitchcock) Piatt; grand- son of John Piatt, and a descendant of Richard Piatt, who came to America in 1638 with the original settlers of New Haven. He was educated in the cele- brated Gunn acad- emy at "Washington; studied law at Litch- field; was admitted tothebarinl849,and practised in Philadel- phia, Pa., 1849-57, and in Meriden, Conn., after 1851. He was clerk of the Con- necticut senate. 18-55- 56; secretary of state, 1857; member of the state senate, 1861-62, and representative in the .state legislature in 1804 and 1869. serving as speaker the latter year. He was state attorney for New Haven county. Conn., 1877-79, and was elected a Republican U.S. senator, succeeding "William H. Barnum, in 1879. being re-elected in 1885, 1891, 1897 and 1903. his fifth t<>rni expiring March 3, 1909. He was chairman of the committee on relations with Cuba, and a member of the committees on finance, Indian affairs, judiciary, private land claims and patents and of the select committee on the five civilized tril>es of Indians in the 56th congress. He received the degree LL.D. from Yale in 1887. He wa.s married. May 15, 1850, to Annie B., daughter of James P. and Ann Bull of Towanda, Penn., who died, Nov. 17, 1894; and

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secondly, April 29, 1897, to Jeannie P. Hoyt, widow of George A. Hoyt of Stamford, Conn., and daugliter of Truman Smith, U.S. senator (q.v.).

PLATT, Thomas Collier, senator, was born in Owego, N.Y., July 15, 1833; son of William and Lesbia (Hinchman) Piatt; grandson of Maj. Jonathan Piatt, who removed from Bedford, Westchester county, to Nichols, Tioga county, with his father, Jonathan Piatt, in 1793. He pre- pared for college in Owego academy, and at- tended Yale, 1849-50, but was compelled to leave, owing to ill health, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was married, Dec. 12, 1852, to Ellen Lucy, daughtecof Charles R. Barstow of Owego, N.Y. He was president of the Tioga National bank; was interested in the lumber business in Michigan, and conducted agricultural implement works at Owego. He was clerk of Tioga county, 1859-61; was active in recruiting troops and in providing for the families of soldiers during the civil war, and was a Republican representative from the 28th New York district in the 43d and 44th congresses, 1873-77. He was elected general manager and president of the U.S. Express com- pany at New York city in 1879, and served as president of the board of quarantine commission- ers, 1883-88, being removed on account of his alleged non-residence in New York city. He was elected to the U.S. senate, Jan 18, 1881. for the term expiring March 3, 1887, and served until May, 1881, when he resigned with his colleague, Roscoe Conkling, on account of a disagreement with President Garfield, and was succeeded by War- ner ]Miller. He was defeated as a senatorial can- didate in the legislative caucus of 1887 by Frank Hiscock, but was elected, Jan. 20. 1897, to succeed Senator David B. Hill, receiving 147 votes to 42 for Hill and 4 for Henry George, and was re-elected by the legislature in 1903, his term expiring March 3, 1909. He became an acknowledged leader of his party in state and national politics, being a del- egate to the successive Republican national con- ventions, chairman of the Republican state con- vention, and a member of the New York Repub- lican state committee and of the executive com- mittee of the Republican national committee. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Yale in 1876.

PLATT, William Henry, clergyman and author, was born in Amenia, Duchess county, N.Y., April 16, 1821. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, and practised in Alabama until 1844, wlien he bogan his preparation for holy orders. He was admitted to the diaconate in 1851, and advanced to the priesthood in 1852; was rector of St. Paul's, Selma, Ala.; Grace church, Peters- burg, "Ya.; at Louisville, Ky.; San Francisco, Cal., and of St. Paul's church in Rochester, N.Y.