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Platt (given Name)
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Platt is a given name. People with the name include: * Platt Adams (1885–1961), American athlete * Platt Adams (politician) (1792–1887), American merchant and politician * Platt D. Babbitt (1822–1879), American photographer * Platt Gollings (1878–1935), English footballer * Platt A. Preston (1837–1900), American politician * Platt Rogers (1850–1928), American politician * Platt Rogers Spencer (1800–1864), originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting * Platt D. Walker (1849–1923), justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court * Platt Whitman (1871–1935), American lawyer, banker, and politician See also * Platt (other) * Platt (surname) Platt is an English language, English surname, and may refer to: People *Alethea Hill Platt (1860–1932), American artist *Alyce Platt (born 1963), Australian actress *Andy Platt (born 1963), British rugby league footballer *''Anthony Leonard Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt Adams
Platt Adams (March 23, 1885 – February 27, 1961) was an American athlete. He competed in various events at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in jumping events in 1912.Platt Adams sports-reference.com Biography Adams was born in Belleville, New Jersey. He had a brother, Ben Adams, also an Olympic athlete. In 1908 he finished fifth in the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt Adams (politician)
Platt Adams (December 20, 1792 – May 12, 1887 in New York City) was an American merchant and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Joseph Adams (d. 1832), and was born on the family farm about six miles below Catskill, then in Albany County, now in Greene County. He married Clarissa Dudley (1791–1857), and they had four children. He was at times Postmaster of Durham; Supervisor of the Town of Durham, a Justice of the Peace, and a colonel of the State Militia. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Greene Co.) in 1820–21, Sheriff of Greene County from 1829 to 1831, and again a member of the State Assembly in 1839. He was a member of the New York State Senate (10th D.) in 1848 and 1849. On May 16, 1859, he married Jennie Eliza Montgomery (d. 1899). Congressman John Adams (1778–1854) was his brother. Sources''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 136, 138, 197, 222, 255 and 400; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)''Table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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__NOTOC__ Platt may refer to: Places * Platt, Austria * Platt, Florida, an unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida, United States * Platt, Texas, a ghost town in Angelina County, in the U.S. state of Texas * Platt, Kent, England People * Platt (surname) * Platt (given name) * Platt baronets, two baronetcies of the United Kingdom Other uses * Leggett & Platt, manufacturing company * Low German, in German known as "Plattdeutsch", "Plattdüütsch", "Platt" * Platt Amendment, a 1901 U.S. law pertaining to Cuba-U.S. relations * Platt Brothers, manufacturers of textile machinery in Oldham, England * Platt Fields Park, a park in Fallowfield, Manchester, England * Platt Island, an archaeological site near Miles City, Florida * Platt-LePage Aircraft Company, an American aircraft company * Platt Music, an American music retailer * ''Platt National Park'', which became part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area * Platt Technical High School * Platt Building, a histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt Gollings
Platts Shadrach Gollings (1878–1935) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis .... References 1878 births 1935 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football wing halves English Football League players Hereford Thistle F.C. players West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. players Hereford Town F.C. players Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands {{England-footy-midfielder-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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__NOTOC__ Platt may refer to: Places * Platt, Austria * Platt, Florida, an unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida, United States * Platt, Texas, a ghost town in Angelina County, in the U.S. state of Texas * Platt, Kent, England People * Platt (surname) * Platt (given name) * Platt baronets, two baronetcies of the United Kingdom Other uses * Leggett & Platt, manufacturing company * Low German, in German known as "Plattdeutsch", "Plattdüütsch", "Platt" * Platt Amendment, a 1901 U.S. law pertaining to Cuba-U.S. relations * Platt Brothers, manufacturers of textile machinery in Oldham, England * Platt Fields Park, a park in Fallowfield, Manchester, England * Platt Island, an archaeological site near Miles City, Florida * Platt-LePage Aircraft Company, an American aircraft company * Platt Music, an American music retailer * ''Platt National Park'', which became part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area * Platt Technical High School * Platt Building, a histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt Rogers
Platt Rogers (1850 – December 25, 1928) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1891 to 1893. Life He was born in 1850 in Newton, New Jersey, shortly thereafter moving along with his family to New York City. He later graduated from Columbia University in 1873, before moving west with his family, while passing through Greeley, Colorado he was so impressed with the town he decided he would remain in the state. He became a practicing attorney, specializing in Irrigation Law. In 1884 litigation arose regarding the High Line Canal and he was called to Denver to represent the English group who constructed it. He served as a District Court Judge in Colorado's Second Judicial District (Denver) from 1882 to 1887. From 1891 to 1893 he served as Mayor of Denver, during this time he became known as the Iron Handed Mayor, due to his strict enforcement of the law. Unfortunately his time in office became tarred by the disastrous redevelopment of the disu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt Rogers Spencer
Platt Rogers Spencer (also Platt R. Spencer) (November 7, 1800 – May 16, 1864) was the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. He was a teacher and active in the business school movement. Early life Spencer was born in East Fishkill, New York, on November 7, 1800. His father, Caleb, died in 1806, and the family moved to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810. At the time, it was an unsettled area. Platt became passionately fond of writing. Because paper was difficult to obtain at the time, the boy wrote on birch tree bark, sand, ice, snow, the fly-leaves of his mother's Bible and, by permission of a cobbler, the leather in his shop. Career In 1815, he taught his first writing class and, from 1816 to 1821, he was a clerk and a book keeper and, from 1821 to 1824, he studied in law, Latin, English literature and penmanship, taught in a common school and wrote up merchants' books. In 1824, he contemplated entering college with a view to preparing for the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt Whitman
Platt Whitman (February 6, 1871September 11, 1935) was an Americans, American lawyer, banker, and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician. He served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate (1915–1919) and two years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Assembly (1909–1911), representing Iowa County, Wisconsin, Iowa County. Biography Whitman was born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1893 and the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1895. He died in Rochester, Minnesota, on September 11, 1935, and is interred in the East Side Cemetery in Dodgeville near the Jones-Owens Mausoleum. His father was Joel Whitman. Career Whitman was elected to the Assembly in 1908. Later, he was a member of the Senate from the Wisconsin Senate, District 17, 17th district from 1915 to 1918. He was a Republican Party (United States), Republican. References External links * 1871 births 1935 deaths People from Dodgevil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt (other)
__NOTOC__ Platt may refer to: Places * Platt, Austria * Platt, Florida, an unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida, United States * Platt, Texas, a ghost town in Angelina County, in the U.S. state of Texas * Platt, Kent, England People * Platt (surname) * Platt (given name) * Platt baronets, two baronetcies of the United Kingdom Other uses * Leggett & Platt, manufacturing company * Low German, in German known as "Plattdeutsch", "Plattdüütsch", "Platt" * Platt Amendment, a 1901 U.S. law pertaining to Cuba-U.S. relations * Platt Brothers, manufacturers of textile machinery in Oldham, England * Platt Fields Park, a park in Fallowfield, Manchester, England * Platt Island, an archaeological site near Miles City, Florida * Platt-LePage Aircraft Company, an American aircraft company * Platt Music, an American music retailer * ''Platt National Park'', which became part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area * Platt Technical High School * Platt Build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
