The Father of John James Piatt, our consul at Dublin, died at Helena, Mont., June 18, [1893]. John Bear Piatt was son of Capt. James Piatt of the United States army in the war of 1812, and grandson of Capt. William Piatt of the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary army; he was thus a hereditary member of the society of the Cincinnati, as Consul Piatt must be. What sort of man the Montana farmer was is indicated in the verse addressed to him by the poet on his 84th birthday; - If I could grace your name with fitting verse, Today you are eighty four, should prompt to write;
The frost of all the years upon your head, Their flower (and not less white) within you breast.
Here, far off, sitting by an exile's fire, While dull November sows the dark with rain (All this loud sea, all that wide land between!) My blood beats quick, my heart proud, to hold.
That our great country, which to make and keep.
Your sire and your sire's sire each gave his life.
And you, if need had been, a soldier too, Had offered yours - although in private ways.
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"John B. Piatt, father of George H. Piatt and Mrs. C. M. [Fannie] Travis, of Helena, and of Guy X. Piatt, of Butte, died at the residence of his son in this city early yesterday morning at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Death was attributable chiefly to the wearing out of vital forces incident to extreme old age. He had been a resident of Helena for the past ten years. The funeral will take place at four o'clock this afternoon from the residence of George H. Piatt on Rodney street." (Helena Independent, 6/19/1893) His attending physician was Miller.
History of Piatt family written by John Bear Piatt can be found at: http://www.griggscountyhistoricalsociety.com/online/porterville/box02/box02folder15.php
The frost of all the years upon your head, Their flower (and not less white) within you breast.
Here, far off, sitting by an exile's fire, While dull November sows the dark with rain (All this loud sea, all that wide land between!) My blood beats quick, my heart proud, to hold.
That our great country, which to make and keep.
Your sire and your sire's sire each gave his life.
And you, if need had been, a soldier too, Had offered yours - although in private ways.
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"John B. Piatt, father of George H. Piatt and Mrs. C. M. [Fannie] Travis, of Helena, and of Guy X. Piatt, of Butte, died at the residence of his son in this city early yesterday morning at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Death was attributable chiefly to the wearing out of vital forces incident to extreme old age. He had been a resident of Helena for the past ten years. The funeral will take place at four o'clock this afternoon from the residence of George H. Piatt on Rodney street." (Helena Independent, 6/19/1893) His attending physician was Miller.
History of Piatt family written by John Bear Piatt can be found at: http://www.griggscountyhistoricalsociety.com/online/porterville/box02/box02folder15.php
The Father of John James Piatt, our consul at Dublin, died at Helena, Mont., June 18, [1893]. John Bear Piatt was son of Capt. James Piatt of the United States army in the war of 1812, and grandson of Capt. William Piatt of the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary army; he was thus a hereditary member of the society of the Cincinnati, as Consul Piatt must be. What sort of man the Montana farmer was is indicated in the verse addressed to him by the poet on his 84th birthday; - If I could grace your name with fitting verse, Today you are eighty four, should prompt to write;
The frost of all the years upon your head, Their flower (and not less white) within you breast.
Here, far off, sitting by an exile's fire, While dull November sows the dark with rain (All this loud sea, all that wide land between!) My blood beats quick, my heart proud, to hold.
That our great country, which to make and keep.
Your sire and your sire's sire each gave his life.
And you, if need had been, a soldier too, Had offered yours - although in private ways.
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"John B. Piatt, father of George H. Piatt and Mrs. C. M. [Fannie] Travis, of Helena, and of Guy X. Piatt, of Butte, died at the residence of his son in this city early yesterday morning at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Death was attributable chiefly to the wearing out of vital forces incident to extreme old age. He had been a resident of Helena for the past ten years. The funeral will take place at four o'clock this afternoon from the residence of George H. Piatt on Rodney street." (Helena Independent, 6/19/1893) His attending physician was Miller.
History of Piatt family written by John Bear Piatt can be found at: http://www.griggscountyhistoricalsociety.com/online/porterville/box02/box02folder15.php
The frost of all the years upon your head, Their flower (and not less white) within you breast.
Here, far off, sitting by an exile's fire, While dull November sows the dark with rain (All this loud sea, all that wide land between!) My blood beats quick, my heart proud, to hold.
That our great country, which to make and keep.
Your sire and your sire's sire each gave his life.
And you, if need had been, a soldier too, Had offered yours - although in private ways.
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"John B. Piatt, father of George H. Piatt and Mrs. C. M. [Fannie] Travis, of Helena, and of Guy X. Piatt, of Butte, died at the residence of his son in this city early yesterday morning at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Death was attributable chiefly to the wearing out of vital forces incident to extreme old age. He had been a resident of Helena for the past ten years. The funeral will take place at four o'clock this afternoon from the residence of George H. Piatt on Rodney street." (Helena Independent, 6/19/1893) His attending physician was Miller.
History of Piatt family written by John Bear Piatt can be found at: http://www.griggscountyhistoricalsociety.com/online/porterville/box02/box02folder15.php
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