New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ement, and possessed inremarkable degree of the synthetical faculty of groujiingand utilizing details, enables him to accom])lish withajjparent ease work that would exhaust a dozen men ofeven more than ordinary ability and energy. Thomas C. Piatt was born in the village of Owego,Tioga County, in this State, on July 15. 1833. His father,William Piatt, a successful lawyer and land agent, gaveThomas a good academic education, and sent him to YaleCollege when sixteen years of age. Ill health compelled himto withdraw from Yale in
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ement, and possessed inremarkable degree of the synthetical faculty of groujiingand utilizing details, enables him to accom])lish withajjparent ease work that would exhaust a dozen men ofeven more than ordinary ability and energy. Thomas C. Piatt was born in the village of Owego,Tioga County, in this State, on July 15. 1833. His father,William Piatt, a successful lawyer and land agent, gaveThomas a good academic education, and sent him to YaleCollege when sixteen years of age. Ill health compelled himto withdraw from Yale in the junior year of his course, andfor the same reason he i)referred the active life of a lumber-man and merchant to a professional career. When quiteyoung, he became a l?ank President in Owego, a director inthe Southern Central Railroad, and was at the same timeconcerned in a number of other local and general enter-prises. In 1859, he filled his first political office as CountyClerk of Tioga, and, in conjunction witii .Monzo B. Cornell, NEW YORK, THE METROJOLIS. 5. THOMAS C. PLATT. was instrumental in the nominations of General Grantfor President and in advancing the political fortunes ofRoscoe Conkling through the influence of the CongressionalDistrict, which included Tompkins County, the home of , as well as Tioga. Declining a Congressional nomi-nation in 1870, tendered to him while looking after hislumber business in Michigan, Mr. Piatt was elected in 1872and again in 1874. Chairman of the Republican StateConvention of 1877, and thenceforth a Republican politicalleader in the State, Mr. Piatt was made Quarantine Com-missioner in 1880, and elected to the United States Senateby the Legislature of 1881. On January i8th of that yearhis term of service was cut short by his resignation,together with Senator Conkling, on May 14, 1881, in con-sequence of the issue raised by the nomination of H. Robertson for the Collectorship of New York. Since the retirement
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