Chester C. Platt (1869–1934) was a drugstore operator in

Ithaca, New York Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metrop ...

who was credited with the invention of the ice cream sundae. He was the owner of the '' Ithaca Democrat'', the '' Batavia Times'', and the Madison '' Wisconsin Leader''. He was secretary to New York Governor William Sulzer, and was involved in Democratic state and national politics from 1910 to 1920. In Ithaca, he was active in the Unitarian Church and in local politics.

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