Cotton T. Pratt brought his family from Maine by way of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and settled in section 31 of Cedar Township in 1840, dying about a week after they arrived and leaving his widow Fannie with five children. His sons D. A. and Charles Pratt stayed near Solon: D. A. farmed and dealt in lumber, and Charles went to California in 1849, came back in 1853, and by 1883 owned 532 acres and was among the leading wool growers of the county. Charles's son W. T. Pratt opened a drug business in Solon in 1879. A separate family began with William E. Pratt, born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1837, who reached the county in 1854 as a carpenter and later farmed in East Lucas, Scott and Graham Townships; the 1912 history traces his line to William Pratt of the Mayflower. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Johnson County history.
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Farmer and lumber dealer near Solon
D. A. PRATT, post-office Solon; was born in Kennebec county, Maine, August 22, 1821, where he spent his early life until twelve years of age, when his father. Cotton T. Pratt, moved to Ohio, near Cleveland, where they lived four years; they then emigrated to Johuson county, Iowa, and settled in section 31, Cedar township, in 1810, where they entered land. Mr. C. T. Pratt dying Feb. 12, 1810, one week after they landed here. Mrs. Fannie Pratt was left with five children, of which the subject of this sketch was the oldest, and he has since lived here, with the exception of from 1811 to 1818, he was in Wisconsin. He now owns 123 acres of land besides town property, and is also engaged in the lumber trade. He was married February, 1848, to Miss Rachel M. McCormick, a native of Clinton county, Ohio. They had seven children, six now living, viz: Fannie E., now Mrs. Kissler, Olla R., now Mrs. Templeman, Mary, now Mrs. Bush, Annie M., now Mrs. Connelly, Adda L., now Mrs. Rogers and Charles A.
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Farmer, stock raiser and wool grower near Solon
CHARLES PRATT, farmer and stock-raiser, Solon; was born in Maine, February 23, 1823. At the age of eight his father. Cotton T. Pratt, moved to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and lived near Cleveland four years, and in January, 1840, emigrated to Iowa, and settled in section 31, Cedar township, Mr. Pratt dying about one week after they came here. Here the subject of this sketch spent his early life, and in the spring of 1849 went to California with a company from this county, and remained there until 1853, and was engaged in mining and farming. He then returned to Johnson county, and attended school in Mt. Vernon, and afterwards engaged in the mercantile business one year in Marshalltown, and six years in Solon. He then bought the farm he now lives on, in 1862, where he now owns 532 acres of well-improved land, and has a fine brick residence, and pays special attention to the raising of fine stock, and is one of the leading wool-growers of the county. He was married October 19, 1858 to Miss Annie M. True, a native of Maine, and came to Iowa in
1857. They have four children, viz: Wm. T., Melville E., Lula A., and an infant unnamed.
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Merchant, Solon; son of Charles
W. T. PRATT, merchant, Solon; was born in this town August 23, 1859. He is a son of Charles and Annie Pratt, of this township. He attended the academy and commercial college at Iowa City, and in the fall of 1879 he commenced business in the drug trade in Solon, and now owns a fine stock of hardware and drugs, and also owns a dry goods and millinery store in Solon. He is a 3'oung man of fine business qualities, and is doing a flourishing business. He was married December 2, 1878, to Miss Anabel L. Jolly, a native of Indiana. They have one daughter, Hortense B.
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Carpenter and farmer near Iowa City
WILLIAM E. PRATT
The founder of this branch of the Pratt family in the United States was William, one of the passengers of the pilgrim ship Mayflower, who settled near the old town of Boston, Massachusetts. The heads of the generations in direct succession of William are James, Robert, Edward, James, Cotton, James G, Edward, and William Edward, our subject, the latter being the ninth generation of his family in America. Edward, the father of our subject, was born in Massachusetts and removed to Pennsylvania. He married Malinda Davidson, a native of Massachusetts, who was the mother of our subject.
William Edward Pratt was born June 30, 1837, at Meadville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and educated in the district schools of Trumbull county, Ohio. He took up the carpenter trade as an occupation, and on reaching Johnson county, Iowa, in 1854, was employed at his trade until 1863. Immediately upon his arrival, however, he became a land owner, and during his long residence in the county has owned farms in East Lucas, Scott, and Graham townships. For man; years he has been a practical farmer, and at this writing re sides on the old Muscatine road, near Iowa City, in honorable retirement. His present farm is recognized as a model, and contains everything essential to up to date farming, with splendid residence and complete fences.
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