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John H. Platt

Lawyer

Centurion, 1852–1886

Full Name John Henry Platt

Born 19 November 1827 in Rhinebeck, New York

Died 21 May 1886 in South Manchester, Connecticut

Buried Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck, New York

Proposed by Edward Slosson

Elected 3 April 1852 at age twenty-four

Archivist’s Note: Secretary of the Century Association, 1886. Father of Charles A. Platt; grandfather of Geoffrey Platt, Roger Platt, and William Platt

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[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.

Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports