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prise. The income of the great Astral apartment house, at Franklin and India streets,
built on the plan of the Peabody buildings in London, is devoted to the support of the
Institute. He also honored the memory of his father by establishing the Asa Pratt
free reading room in his native town. He was a thoroughly domestic man, a Baptist
in religion and one of the founders of Emanuel Church in Lafayette avenue, to which
he gave $1,000,000. He was also a liberal contributor toward other charities. Mr.
Pratt was married first to Lydia A., and then to Mary H., daughters of Thomas
Richardson, and his children are Charles M., Frederick B., George D., Herbert Lee,
John T., Harold I., Lillie R , wife of Frank L. Babbott and Helen Pratt —CHARLES
MILLARD PRATT, son of Charles and Lydia A. Pratt, oil refiner, born in Brooklyn,
Nov. 2 1855, graduated from the Adelphi Academy in 1875 and Amherst College in
1879. He then engaged in business with his father in The Pratt Manufacturing Co.,
128 Pearl street, relieving the latter of much of the care of his vast business trans¬
actions. He quickly became a trusted assistant, developing the shrewdness and energy
which had brought such large measure of success to the head of the family. In 1891,
upon the death of his father, the management of the complicated interests of his
father fell to his lot, and he has since demonstrated his own ability. He conducts the
Pratt Astral Oil business, is a director of The Standard Oil Co., here, and first vice
president of The Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky, vice president of The Long Island
Railroad, president of the trustees of Pratt Institute, and director in The Mechanics'
National Bank and The Brooklyn Trust Co. He is deeply interested in the welfare of
Amherst College, and has ^presented the institution with a spacious and perfectly
equipped gymnasium known as the Pratt Gymnasium, costing nearly $50,000. May
8, 1884, Mr. Pratt married Mary Seymour, daughter of ex-Gov. Luzon B. Morris of
New Haven, Conn., and his children are Morris, Theodore, Margaret R., Kather¬
ine E. and Richardson Pratt. He is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi, Montauk,
Hamilton and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht clubs and The Amherst Alumni
Association.

DALLAS BACHE PRATT, banker, born Feb. 4, 1849, in New York city, is the
son of the Rev. Horace L. Edgar Pratt, an Episcopal clergyman, and of Kate Martin,
his wife. The family are of English descent. Mr. Pratt's education was obtained in
Trinity School and, at the age of sixteen, he secured employment in the banking
house of Brown Bro's & Co. After sixteen years of service there, he became cashier
of The Bank of America, resigning the position ten years later to enter the firm of
Maitland, Phelps & Co., bankers and merchants. He is second vice president of The
Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind., a large concern with a capital of
$1,800,000. In May, 1881, he married Minnie G., daughter of Charles G. Landon, and
four children have been born to them, Katherine Griswold, Alexander Dallas, Con¬
stance and Beatrice Pratt. Mr. Pratt is an earnest, able and judicious man, and very
popular in the metropolis, and a member of three of the most exclusive clubs in the
city, the Metropolitan, Country and Union League.

JULIUS HOWARD PRATT, manufacturer and railroad builder, was born in
Meriden, Conn., Aug. i, 1821. Graduating from Yale College, Mr. Pratt engaged in
business in Meriden with his father, Julius Pratt, a manufacturer of ivory goods, and
was employed in the selling department in New York, where he remained for eighteen
years.    The business grew to enormous proportions.    Of ivory combs alone,  the firm