The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-07

up his course because Of ~ health. With
him when he left the college he took a
copy of SCOTS works with the following
inscription written by President WOolsey
Third prire for translation from Latin
INTO English. awarded to Thomas G.. Plat
~ the freshman class in Yale college IN
THropopE Il wooisEr.
President OF Yale college.
Anril :. $50
On June -. 1873. Yale gave Mr. Piatt.
th~n a delegate 10 the national Repub-
icnn convention a. Cincinnati support
ing senator Roscoe Conkling's candidacy
for the Presidential nomination. the
honorary degree Of master 81 arts
On that same day tho university con-
ferrrd upon William T~c,Ifnseh sherman
tho dogrec Of doctor 81 laws fragment
from the address Of william Walter Pheip-
orr tor ~ the day. Mr. PlRtt commit I'D %
memory and often quoted ir later YEAR
Pc wise rather han eloquent.
10 Kind rather than polite
~ useful rather than famous
rHE DRUG STORE IN owE0o
Forced to abandon hia idea Of taking
full collegiate course. Mr.. Plat returned
80 OWcgo and starred business a. q
ship with Frederick * H.ll under the
firm name of Plat 4 Hull In iS5t
whom he was Il wears old. he married
lis cousin. Ellen Lucy Ia rstow. daughter
of charlie. H. Barstow. originally Of
S,ocEeridgs. Mas. Miss BarstoS then
7 Plat. nov treasurer of the United
States EHpre~- Company. Prank n. Plat.
e member 81 the law firm IT OBrien.
Buardman. Plat A httlet"n, Of which
former supreme tourt Justice Morgan
! O'Bri"u - ~" head. and a .lir~y-oT in
tho express company. and Henry b. Plat.
vice pre-ldeDt - the Fidelity and D~posit
Company of Maryland Tho mother 81
these boys tied AZ the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
February -. 1871 She was buried at
Owego
Mr. Platt's father eas a rigid church
man % the Older tyne Il had such q
surfslt of ChurchRoinR in my youth
Thomas I. Plat once said. that II 70
could I've averaged up and spread out.
- world do for all INV life Bu with
his entry INTO business life the son
b-,arne q deacon in the Presbyterian
church, and also sang in the choir. HE
ma me throughout hIs county then Was
Deacon Platt.- In later years. after
coming In New York. he attended the Rev
DR. ParkhurSt's church at Madison avenue
and Twenty fourth street and still later
was p~whold"r IN the Marble Cole
gis' thurch and was a friend ~ its pas
tor tho R-v. Dr David :. Burrell.
SiT Plat Wa- not sufficiently robust
as an active fighter He early develOn.,t
a stomach trouble which chung 20 him
the remainder IL hts hfs But az the
opening " the war h. offered his ssrvice-
IN any capacity for which he Was phyri-
oal'v g'.al fed. and Gov Edwin n Nor
gan appointed HIM an auxiliary member
~ the VA cOmmttse Of tn. state. and
lac Vas active In raising funds for the
ma ntsnahce Of troops. HE drug store
being a headqusr tsrs for the work
On November II. 1872. he firm Of Piatt
4 Hull sold cut 40 Fly A 10. ~ Oweg O :
and Mr.. Plat retired from the drug /
business. In tn" twenty years he was |
a mefnl~r OF this firm Mr. Plat wrote 1
lts adv"rti-am~nts and mixed politics 1
with pharmaCOprria in an amazing i
ashton. He had no liking for Andrew |
Johnson and attacked johnson and ad- |
y "Ttlss-d The DSdicaments Of Plat 4 Hull
IN the same paragraphs Mr.. Ptatt had \
not confined himself m his business in J
forest, Ia the drug trade ln lsoS he was /
1ne " the directors OF the Congress Gold |
Mining Company at Central City Col
aud later was a director Il the Southern
lentral Railroad Company of New York |
Eventually he became president of this I
latter company. In his Owego county |
days he also Was a member II the firm /
81 y. =. Brown Co. lumbermen IN /
he MiIsksEon and Big RApidn Railroad I
COmpauy. president Of the Tioes Manu- I
Iacturiug Company Of Big Rapids, with
arge lumber and mill interests on the I
MuskeGon River, and for many years
president ~ tAg TiogA National Bank AZ
Owego. He also was treasurer Of the .
Owego Driving Park Association
srAETEp A NEw FORK NEwsPAPkR
After the Greeley campaign IN 1872
Ne
irug business. he came 20 New York and
with others started the Rspubiic. a peWa-
paper devoted go tbs interests 81 Gen 1
Grant The Tr,buHs was out 81 favor
with the Republican party and the limos
was altoge' her too independent 20 suit
he Grant administration and its friends ]
In" Republic was short lived In 1875
\lr Platt WAS mad" secretary and general
Of the Tinted States Expres.
pInpanv. with of'ic.ss az ~ BroadSaV 3
In 1919 he became president and NOV al 4
N New York. taking up his rs-sidenn., A.
he FIFTH Avenue Hotel some y..,.
ago h- was made receiver 81 the New
FORK and New England Railroad Com
ANY and AZ about the same time also WA
lrcsident OF the tennessee Coal and Iron
company. Among his other bnsiness
he NJ ono tune held small IRON
interests IN Ohio, and ho lived in that
state for short time
IL has been said that Mr. Pia,t's tasfe
or politics was n part 81 his Inheritance
" Yale freshman he thought and talked
-olitics. Zachary Taylor. the last Whi1
'rerideni had Just beaten ont Lewis
ass ~ Michigan. the Democrats candi-
bate. and Martin Van Buren, ~ New WORT
b" rec Soil Candidate FroTn boyho,,d
ir. Plat had teen Interested IN the .uI,-
eci. tut u was when he was elec,ed
'"'mty icrk ~ TiOga IN 1858 that h.. mad
~ irst lessen ia prIciical politics From
hat day he never quit the. game until
- guIt y for good He never even toll
aca'ions m the summer tune H.. had II
summer homo ~ Highland Mills iu
orange county, hut he spent hut ono
nmrneT iherr. prrferring the Oriental
to'sl at Manhattan Beach Manhattan
s'ach was nearer the political centre OF
hinge.
Nj. Platt's start m politics was made
'artly ~ least through his singing With
non" or less No'al training and svr.yt-
NJ" he organized Ele. clIb for the pro
mont campaign and used 10 sing Ietweeo
he speeches AZ rallies " hrs partv In
his way he became known 10 all in tho
ounty who took an interest ~ public
T1irs He also wrote cafnraiwn song.
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