History of Unionville, (Hartford County) Connecticut United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of Samuel Ball Platner

Samuel Ball Platner, philologist, was born at Unionville, Conn., Dec. 4, 1863; son of William and Emily Childs (Ball) Platner; grandson of Samuel and Experience (Howland) Ball, and of Samuel Ton Broeck and Elizabeth Gillette (Noyes) Platner, and a descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower. He removed with his parents to Newark, N.J., in 1866, attended the Newark academy and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1883; Ph.D., 1885. He was a graduate student in Sanskrit, Latin and Greek, 1883-85, and was instructor in Latin and French at Adelbert college of Western Reserve university, 1885-90; assistant professor of Latin and instructor in Sanskrit, 1890-92, and was elected professor of Latin in 1892. He was married, June 29, 1892, to Leonora, daughter of Charles Henry Sayre of Utica, N.Y. He was president of the American Philological association, 1900-1901; secretary of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, 1900, and professor in that school, 1899-1900. He edited "Greek and Roman Versification" (translated from the German of Lucian M?ller, 1892), and "Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny" (1894), and contributed various articles to the American Journal of Philology, the Classical Review and the American Historical Review.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor