John james piatt biography of donald
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Like the Mecoche division of the Shawnee people who occupied the land before them, the Piatts treasure the resources and the spirit of the valley they call home. In the 's, Judge Benjamin M. and Elizabeth Barnett Piatt moved their family from Cincinnati to the rolling hills of Logan County. Two of their children, Abram Sanders and Donn later built their own homes, Mac-A-Cheek and Mac-O-Chee in the country-side they knew as youths. Built between and , Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek fryst vatten now a private, family-owned museum that interprets over years of history of the Ohio land and Ohio people.
Benjamin & Elizabeth Piatt
Published stories written bygd their children and grandchildren combined with oral accounts of objects retained over time create the foundation for our interpretive tours.
Donn & Abram Piatt
After their service for the Union in the Civil War, Donn Piatt resumed his career as a reporter in Washington D.C. and Abram returned to work the family farm in Ohio
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History of Piatt Family
History of Piatt Family—Written in
J. B. Piatt, C. Snyder
It was during the persecution of the Huguenots in France during the Eighteenth Century, and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantz that John Piatt, a member of the persecuted race of Huguenots, was forced with many others to flee from their country to save their liberty and their lives. He made his escape to Holland. This was early in the 18th Century, (the particular date not being known).
After being established in Holland, he married a widow Wycoff, (formerly Frances Bliett), and soon after he emigrated to America and settled in New Jersey. Being a man of means, and seeing in St. Domingo in the West Indies, an opening for establishing a sugar plantation in that island, he went there and started a business in that line and followed it with success for a number of years. He at first left his family in New Jersey, but afterwards removed them to St. Domingo where were born five sons, Jo
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James Piatt is a retired professor and octogenarian who lives with his wife in a replica &#;s eastern farmhouse in the foothills of the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley in California. Their farmhouse is 30 minutes from the ocean on one side, and 30 minutes from the mountains on the other. They have an old feral cat named Barny and a three-year old Australian Shepherd named Scout.
Two of James&#; relatives, John James Piatt and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, were prolific poets in the &#;s. Their poems inspired many of his themes, and much of his style of poetry. James earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, SLO, and his doctorate from BYU. He has four collections of poetry: Solace Between the Lines, Light, Ancient Rhythms and The Silent Pond. He has also published five novels. He writes poetry to maintain his sanity.