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Oral history interview with Donn Piatt : December 9, 1982.
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| Title | Oral history interview with Donn Piatt : December 9, 1982. |
| Subject | Piatt, Donn, 1920- --Interviews. |
| Description | CONTENT SHEET. Insurance man. Interview: Great Aunt Emma Piatt wrote "Good Life in Piatt County" in 1883 (published as: History of Piatt County : Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time) -- Great Uncle was the architect for the Pepsin Plant and the High School -- The Piatt Family -- North and South schools in Monticello -- Attended the University of Illinois -- U.S. Navy 1942-1946 -- Trips to Chicago while growing up -- Monticello during his childhood (1922-1931) -- Large mansion on North State Street -- Moore Family -- Depression and the bank's closing -- Kirby Family and starting up the Kirby Hospital -- Beginning of Burgess and Cline Insurance -- Dighton banks in Monticello -- Chauffeur driven cars in Monticello -- Allerton Family -- Organizations -- Interurban -- Remodeling the Monticello Square -- Do-More Corporation -- Tax situation in Monicello. FURTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Son of Donn & Kathryn Piatt; great-great-grandson of the founder of Piatt County, James A. Piatt -- Graduated from Monticello High School (1938); from the University of Illinois (1942), B.S. from the College of Commerce -- Served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946 -- Joined the Monticello Insurance firm of Burgess & Cline -- Community leadership: Treasurer & Director, Monticello Chamber of Commerce; President & Director, Monticello , Do-More Corp.; Treasurer & Director, Kirby Hospital; development of Tatman Village; Director, Tatman Village; Director National Bank, Marine Bank, and BancOne (Champaign-Urbana); President, Monticello Township Cemetery District; Director, Monticello Industrial Development Corp.; Director, Monticello Grain Company; Past President, Monticello Rotary Club ; Vice-President & Director, Piatt County Loan Association; 6-year Member, Monticello Community Unity #25 (Board of Education). |
| Contributors | Sue Gortner, interviewer ; Jack Brighton, Digital Conversion Project Coordinator. |
| Date | 1982; produced 2005. |
| Format | 1 sound disc (ca. 1 hr.) : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in. + photograph ; interview. |
| Relation to original | Reproduction. Originally recorded: Monticello, Ill., 1982 (1 audiocassette ; analog ; 1/4 in.) |
| Publisher | Urbana, Ill. : WILL Radio/Television Station. |
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