Paul Waples Platter (1887–1987) attended the University of Texas for two years and Harvard University for two years in the Class of 1911. He went back to Denison to work at Waples-Platter Grocer Company, then in August 1917 volunteered for service in World War I. He was one of six selected for special work in the Subsistence Division of the QMC in Washington. He was promoted to the rank of captain and sent overseas on July 18, 1918, where he was assigned to duty as a rail-head officer. After the Armistice, he was made superintendent of rail-head officers. Discharged on May 4, 1919, he returned to his duties as director and officer of Waples-Platter in Fort Worth. He married Ellen E. Nielsen in Chicago in 1920. They had one child, Neilsen W. Platter (1922–2003).