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Pratt, Charles A – Pratt, Peter

Pratt, Charles A

journalist, poet, was born Jan. 20, 1856, in Pennsylvania.

From 1885-89 he was postmaster of Peoria; and in 1890 bought The Times of Sheffield, Ill.

Pratt, Enoch

merchant, banker, philanthropist, was born Sept. 10, 1808, in Middleborough, Mass. He has given in the most liberal manner to schools, churches, and charities and has established in Baltimore the Enoch Pratt Free library, at a cost of $400,000 in real estate and $833,000 in cash.

Pratt, Henry O

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1838, in Foxcroft, Maine. He served as a private in the army; practiced law at Charles City, Iowa, in 1864; and was elected to the Iowa house of representatives in 1869, and re-elected in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.

Pratt, Jacob Loring

clergyman, author, was born in 1835. He was a clergyman of Maine; and the author of Evening Rest; Branches of Palm; Broken Fetters; The Mask Lifted; Bonnie Aerie; Mecca; and The Crown of Silver. He died in 1891.

Pratt, James H

lawyer, politician, was born Nov. 16, 1850, in Linn county, Mo. He is one of the leading lawyers of his native state at Neosha; has been city attorney for four years; and served as engrossing clerk in the Missouri house of representatives. He takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state; and is secretary of the democratic state executive judicial committee for the eastern judicial district of Missouri.

Pratt, James T

agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1805 in Middletown, Conn. He served in the Connecticut legislature; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.

Pratt, John

college president, was born Oct. 12, 1800, in Thompson, Conn.

He was the first president of Denison university, Ohio, serving from 1831-37. He died in 1882 in Granville, Ohio.

Pratt, Julius Howard

manufacturer, railroad builder, was born Aug. 1, 1821, in Meriden, Conn. He commenced business in 1842 as a manufacturer of ivory goods, which proved to be a success.

His most important achievement was the building of the New York and Greenwood Lake railway.

Pratt, Matthew

artist, was born Sept. 25, 1734, in Philadelphia, Pa. His portraits, in the execution of which he proved himself an artist of undoubted talent, include those of Rev. Archdeacon Mann, of Dublin, the Duke of Portland, the Duchess of Manchester, Governor Andrew Hamilton, and Governor Cadwalader Colden, of New York. He painted also The London School of Artists, which Thomas Sully pronounced well executed.

He died Jan. 9, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Pratt, O. C

lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He removed to Illinois, and from that state was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Oregon, residing at Oregon City.

Pratt, Orson

educator, author, was born Sept. 19, 1811, in Hartford, N. Y. He was a Mormon apostle and educator, professor of mathematics in Deseret university. He was the author of Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon; Cubic and Bi-Quadratic Equations; The Great First Cause; and The Absurdities of Immaterialism. He died Oct. 3, 1881, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pratt, Peter

lawyer, author. He was eminent as a lawyer and published The Prey Taken from the Strong, or an Historical Account of the Recovery of One from the Dangerous Errors of Quakerism. He died in November, 1730, in New London, Conn.