CHAPTER LIII 

 HENRY BARSTON PLATT 



TREASURER OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION, FROM 



MR. PLATT, the present treasurer of the National Tuber- 

 culosis Association, is modesty personified. It was with 

 great difficulty that a few data were obtained to enable 

 the author to make this short biographical sketch. 



Henry Barston Platt was born in New York City, February 2, 

 1860. He is the son of the late Senator Thomas C. and Ellen 

 Barston Platt. After his preliminary education in the public 

 schools, young Platt went to Yale, where he finished his classical 

 education in 1882. After graduating from college he went into 

 the manufacturing business for about three years and became 

 superintendent of coal properties in Pennsylvania. Later on he 

 was made general superintendent of the United States Express 

 Company. He is now vice-president of the Fidelity and Deposit 

 Company of Maryland. During the world war Mr. Platt nat- 

 urally wished to do his duty, and in the year 1918 served as 

 director of the Bureau of Personnel of the Atlantic Division of the 

 American Red Cross. The National Tuberculosis Association is 

 to be congratulated on Mr. Platt's acceptance of this most im- 

 portant position in our Association. 



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