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Born 1821, Kennebec county
From History of Johnson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Together with biographical sketches .. (1883)
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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