ALLEN PIATT

PIATT

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 20:00:06

ALLEN PIATT has been a resident of Adams county, Iowa, for twenty years and is one of the well-known and reliable citizens of Carl township. A resume of his life is herewith given:

Allen Piatt was born in Butler county, Ohio, November 17, 1826, son of Jacob Piatt, a native of Penn valley, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Abram Piatt, was a Revolutionary soldier and the son of a Frenchman. The mother of Allen Piatt was before her marriage Miss Jane Thompson, a native of Juniata valley, Pennsylvania, a daughter of James Thompson, who was also born in
Pennsylvania. The late Hon. Joseph McDonald, of Indiana, was a first cousin of Allen Piatt. The parents of our subject moved from Pennsylvania to Butler county, Ohio, where they lived until 1842. That year they moved to Henry county, Illinois, and settled six miles south of Cambridge,
where they passed the rest of their lives, the mother dying some years before the father. The latter wedded a second wife. By his first marriage he had three children and by the second four. His life was spent on a farm. In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a Presbyterian.

The subject of our sketch was reared on the farm, and his education obtained in the common schools. In 1859 he went to California, making the long and tedious journey across the plains with ox teams, returning in 1862, via the Isthmus of Panama, having spent the intervening time engaged in mining and farming in California and in Carson valley, Nevada. In 1867 he moved to Dallas county, Iowa, where he lived four years, at the end of which time, in 1871, he located in Adams county. He first settled on 160 acres of land, the farm on which Mr. A. Putnam now lives. This he subsequently exchanged for his present farm, formerly owned by Mr. A. Webel. It contains 120 acres and is well improved with good buildings, grove, orchard, etc., the general appearance of the place indicating the thrift and enterprise of the owner.

Mr. Piatt was, on November 27, 1862, in Illinois, united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Rogers, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana,daughter of Elijah and Nancy (Beach) Rogers, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Kentucky. Her father is now a resident of Holstein, Ida county, Iowa. Her mother was a daughter of James Beach and a descendant of English ancestry. She died in Kansas in 1880. Mrs. Piatt was reared in Rock Island county, Illinois. The children born to them are as follows: Homer, a resident of Omaha, Nebraska; Ella, wife of Eugene Dudley, of Creston, Iowa, and Wilmuth, Frank and Rachel. The parents and three oldest children, are members of the Evangelical Church.

In politics Mr. Piatt’s views are in harmony with Democratic principles. He has served the public as township trustee and as a member of the school board. He is one of the substantial citizens of the township, and one whose influence is always felt for good in the community where he lives.