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Platt, Charles Davis

educator, author, was born March 18, 1856, in Elizabeth, N. J. He has been principal of the Morris academy at Morristown, N. J., since 1883. He is the author of a volume entitled Ballads of New Jersey in the Revolution.

Platt, Franklin

geologist, author, was born Nov. 19, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Pennsylvania geologist, president of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal company from 1881; and the author of Coke Manufacturing; Waste in Mining Anthracite; and other volumes of geological reports.

Platt, James H

soldier, physician, banker, congressman, was born July 13, 1837, in Canada. He was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Virginia in 1867. He was president of the People's Savings bank of Petersburg; and was elected a representative to the fortyfirst, forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.

Platt, Jonas

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 30, 1769, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was judge of the supreme court of New York; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1799 to 1801. He died Feb. 22, 1834, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Platt, William Henry

clergyman, author, was born April 16, 1821, in Amenia, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman of Rochester, N. Y., and more recently of Petersburg, Va. He is the author of Influence of Religion in the Development of Jurisprudence; After Death-What?; God Out and Man In; and The Philosophy of the Supernatural.

Platt, Zephaniah

congressman, was born in 1740 in Dutchess county, N.

Y. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1784 to 1786.

Platt, Zephaniah

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1796 in Plattsburg, N. Y. He was appointed by the United States government its attorney to settle its claims on the Pacific coast. He was state attorney-general of Michigan for several years, and took high rank at the bar. He removed to South Carolina at the close of the civil war, and from 1868 until his death was judge of the second circuit. He died April 20, 1871, in Aiken, S. C.

Plautz, Samuel

clergyman, college president, was born June 13, 1859, in Gloversville, N. Y. For many years he filled a pastorate in Detroit; and is now the president of the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis.

PLEASANTON, AUGUSTUS JAMES, soldier, author, was born in 1808 in District of Columbia. He was an army officer prominent for a short time as the author of a work on the Influence of the Blue Ray in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life. He died in 1894.

Pleasants, James

congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1769, in Goochland county, Va.

He was a representative in congress from 1811 to 1819; and was United States senator from 1819 to 1822. He was governor of Virginia from 1822 to 1825. He died Nov. 9, 1836, in Goochland county, Va.

Pleasants, John Hampden

journalist, was born Jan. 4, 1797, in Goochland county, Va. He removed to Richmond, Va., and in 1824 founded the Constitutional Whig and Public Advertiser, and was its chief editor for twenty-two years. He died Feb. 27, 1846, in Richmond, Va.

Plowman, Thomas Scales

soldier, merchant, banker, congressman, was born June 8, 1843. After the war he engaged in the mercantile business; and was three times mayor of Talladega, Ala. For a number of years he has been president of the First National bank of Talladega, which he organized. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.