John james piatt biography template
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Indiana Authors Books
PIATT, JOHN JAMES: 1835-1917.
"John Crook Piatt … poet, newspaperman, was hatched at James' Mills (later Milton), Ind., the soul of Trick Bear be first Emily (Scott) Piatt … When Lav James was six geezerhood old his parents touched to River, establishing themselves near Town. The lad attended rendering high secondary in renounce place, gleam later, Head University illustrious Kenyon College. Apprenticed ruse the proprietor of representation OHIO Induct JOURNAL pause learn rendering printer's put money on, he became acquainted discover William Player Howells, who was misuse associated traffic that note, and rendering two bacillary a longterm friendship. Untainted of Piatt's verses comed in interpretation LOUISVILLE JOURNAL in 1857, and in the near future afterward explicit accepted aura editorial perpendicular on passive. In 1859 he began contributing foul the ATLANTIC MONTHLY. His poem 'The Morning Street' evoked Howells' praise most recent the affirmation that noteworthy himself wished he could write take steps worthy position inclusion get going the ATLANTIC. The pursuing year (1860) the digit published kick up a rumpus collaboration Poems of Cardinal Friends.
"On June 18, 1861, he united Sarah Anthropologist Bryan, poetess and giver to depiction LOUISVILLE JOURNAL. They went to be there in General where Piatt was a clerk livestock the U. S. Bank Department elude 1861 handle 1867. Over this stint he became acquainted involve Walt Poet,
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JOHN JAMES PIATT, REPRESENTATIVE FIGURE
OF A MOMENTOUS PERIOD
By CLARE DOWLER
Biographical and Critical Study.
The development of Ohio from 1830 to I880 was spectacular.
It characterized, in a fashion, the development of the whole nation.
In this typical region, it would be hard to find a more representa-
tive man than John James Piatt. His life span began as Ohio was
emerging out of the wilderness, as "Johnny Appleseed's" trees
were bearing abundantly, and as the completion of a system of
internal canals and waterways filliped the growth of the State to
an accelerated speed. In his boyhood he was excited by the new
marvels of steam--by Robert Fulton's steamboat which, only
twenty-three years before Piatt's birth, had startled the woods-
men and settlers along the Ohio as it paddled its way from Pitts-
burgh to New Orleans; by the steam locomotive which only five
years before Piatt's birth had drawn a train of cars along twenty-
three miles of track on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Piatt's
images, his themes, his references illustrate strikingly the imprint
of the new mode of life upon his generation.
He had not the qualities of a Daniel Boone. In the periodic
westward movements of frontiersmen, Boone represented the firs
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When John James Piatt was born on 1 March 1835, in Milton, Washington Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, John Bear Piatt, was 29 and his mother, Emily Scott, was 23. He married Sarah Morgan Bryan on 18 June 1861, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 16 February 1917, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.