PIATT, John James, American poet: b. James' Mill, 'Dearborn County, Ind., 1 March 1835; d. Cincinnati, Ohio, 16 Fed. 1917. He was educated at Capitol University (Columbus, Ohio) and Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), was clerk in the United States Treasury Depart ment in 1861-67, librarian of the United States House of Representatives 1871-75, consul at Cork, Ireland, in 1882-93 and consul at Dub lin April-September 1893. In 1868-69 he was editorially connected with the Cincinnati Chronicle and in 1869-78 with the Cincinnati Commercial. He attained considerable recogni tion among American minor poets. His works include 'Poems by Two Friends' (1860), with W. D. Howells; 'The Nests at Washington' (New York 1864), and 'The Children Out-of Doors: A Book of Verses by Two in One House' (Cincinnati 1x5), with S. M. B. Piatt (Qv.) ; Poems in Sunshine and Firelight' (Cincinnati 1866) ; 'Western Windows and Other Poems' (New York 1869) ; 'The Pio neer's Chimney, etc.' (Cincinnati 1871) ; 'Land
marks, The Lost Farm and Other Poems' (New York 1872) ; 'Poems of House and Home' (Boston 1879) ; Penciled Fly-Leaves' (Cincinnati 1880) ; 'At the Holy Well' (Dub lin 1887) ; 'Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Val ley' (Boston 1888) ; Book of Gold' (1889) ; 'The Lost Hunting Ground, etc.' (London 1893); 'Little New-World Idyls' (New York 1893) ; 'The Ghost's Entry and Other Poems' (1895) ; 'A Return to Paradise.' He has also edited: 'The Poems of George D. (Cincinnati 1876) ; 'The Union of American Poetry and Art' (Cincinnati 1880) ; 'The Hes perian Tree, An Annual of the Ohio Valley' (Cincinnati 1900-03). Consult Howells, W. D., 'John James Platt (in Harper's Magazine, VoL CXXXV, p. 291, New York 1917).