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2 unusual facts about Orville C. Pratt


Orville C. Pratt

He wrote the lone dissenting opinion in the controversy over the Oregon Territory’s capital between Oregon City and Salem.

Rancho Aguas Frias

In 1859, Orville C. Pratt (1819-1891) purchased of the Rancho Aguas Frias.


Agricol Lozano

Lozano's poetry has been compared to that of Walt Whitman and his full-force living of the teaching of the LDS Church to that of Orson Pratt and Parley P. Pratt.

Albert F. Pratt

Pratt served with the 14th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry as a first lieutenant in the Spanish–American War and was a major in the Minnesota National Guard, 3rd Infantry for 28 years.

Albert Pratt

Albert F. Pratt (1872–1928), American lawyer and politician, Attorneys General of Minnesota

Anthony E. Pratt

Parlett, David, The Oxford History of Board Games: Oxford University Press,1999, ISBN 0-19-212998-8

Anthony Pratt

Anthony E. Pratt (1903–1994), English inventor of the board game Cluedo/Clue

California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.

Charles E. Pratt

As a musician and orchestra leader, Pratt worked with artists including Emma Abbott (serving as her manager for a time), Emma Thursby, Anna Bishop, Robert Heller, Alice Dunning Lingard, Ema Pukšec (Ilma de Murska), and Clara Louise Kellogg.

Bring Back My Bonnie To Me (1881) (lyrics by "J.T. Wood", composed by "H.J. Fulmer")

In 1881, under the duo of pseudonyms H.J. Fulmer and J.T. Wood, Pratt published the popular "Bring Back My Bonnie To Me" (aka My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean), which is said to be an adaptation of a traditional Scottish folk song.

Frederic B. Pratt

In 1910, he succeeded Caspar Whitney as president of the American Olympic Committee, now the United States Olympic Committee, but only served for five weeks, prior to Col Robert Means Thompson.

George C. Pratt

After a two-year term clerking for a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Pratt spent two decades, from 1955 to 1976, as a lawyer in private practice in Nassau County, New York.

George Pratt

George W. Pratt (1830–1862), New York state senator, and Union Army colonel

Harcourt J. Pratt

Pratt was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933).

He was president of the Board of Education of Highland, New York from 1908 to 1926.

He died from injuries received in an automobile accident near Highland, New York, May 21, 1934.

Harold I. Pratt

Pratt's son, Harold Irving Pratt Jr., had his portrait painted by the artist John Singer Sargent in 1924, when he was 20 years old.

Harry H. Pratt

Pratt was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919).

James Noble Tyner

In 1869, Tyner was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect Daniel D. Pratt (who instead took a seat in the Senate).

Julius W. Pratt

Pratt delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History for 1936, later published as The Expansionists of 1898: The Acquisition of Hawaii and the Spanish Islands. In the period 1938-1939, Pratt was one of the "Committee of Ten on Reorganization and Policy" charged by the American Historical Association with reviewing the organization and recommending improvements.

Mexicans of American descent

More recent prominent Mexican Mormons of American descent include Carl B. Pratt, the current president of the LDS Church's Missionary Training Center in Mexico City and a former General Authority of the church.

Michael R. Powers

At Harvard, he wrote his dissertation under the direction of John W. Pratt.

Millennial Star

The first issue of the Millennial Star was published in Manchester, England in May 1840, with Latter Day Saint Apostle Parley P. Pratt as editor and W. R. Thomas as printer.

Peru, New York

Francis A. Pratt (1827–1902), was a Connecticut mechanical engineer, inventor, and founder of Pratt & Whitney.

The Dalhousie Review

Contributors during the magazine's early years included Archibald MacMechan, R. MacGregor Dawson, Sir Robert Borden, Duncan Campbell Scott, Eliza Ritchie, E. J. Pratt, Douglas Bush, Charles G. D. Roberts, Frederick Philip Grove, Robert Stanfield, Hugh MacLennan, Hilda Neatby, Eugene Forsey, Thomas Raddall, Earle Birney and A.J.M. Smith.

William V. Pratt

During his tenure, he also helped Coast Guard Commandant Harry G. Hamlet in discouraging President Franklin D. Roosevelt from merging the Navy and Coast Guard.

He commanded a battleship division in 1923–1925 and was President of the court of inquiry that examined the 8 September 1923 Honda Point Disaster.


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