Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
Charles Pratt
1830 - 1891 (60 years)-
Name Charles Pratt Birth 2 Oct 1830 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Gender Male Death 4 May 1891 New York, New York Person ID I67127 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 9 Oct 2006
Father Asa Pratt, b. 1 Mar 1794, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 8 Nov 1878, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) Mother Elizabeth Stone, b. 11 Jun 1795, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Marriage 19 Aug 1819 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Family ID F29532 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Lydia Ann Richardson, b. Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1861, , , New York Marriage 1854 Children 1. Charles Millard Pratt 2. Lydia Pratt Family ID F29533 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary Helen Richardson, b. Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts Marriage 1863 Children 1. George D. Pratt 2. Herbert L. Pratt 3. John T. Pratt 4. Frederic B. Pratt 5. Pratt Family ID F29534 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - !SOURCE: J. Gardner Bartlett, Simon Stone Genealogy (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1926), p. 171.
!RESIDENCES: Settled in Brooklyn, N.Y. --J.G. Bartlett
!OCCUPATION: "Became one of the large owners of the Standard Oil Company in association with John D. Rockefeller, Stephen Harkness, William G. Warden, and others." --J.G. Bartlett
!NOTE: "Founded and endowed with $2,000,000 the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y." --J.G. Bartlett
!SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, History and Genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2004), p. G83-G84.
!NOTE: "At the time of his death he was considered to be the wealthiest man in Brooklyn, N.Y. with an estate valued at between $15 and $20 million." --B. Whipple
- !SOURCE: J. Gardner Bartlett, Simon Stone Genealogy (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1926), p. 171.