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	Charles Pratt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Pratt was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, one of eleven children.
		Pratt recognized the potential replacement of whale oil with natural oil for lighting purposes, and became a pioneer of the natural oil industry as new wells were established in western Pennsylvania in the 1860s.
		Charles Pratt's great-grandson Andy Pratt (born 1947 in Boston), whose father Edwin H Baker Pratt was headmaster of the patrician school Buckingham Browne and Nichols, is a highly original singer-songwriter [[1]].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Pratt (1493 words)

	Biography of Charles Pratt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles Pratt was educated in the public schools and in 1855 married Harriet E., daughter of John A. Sanford.
		Pratt is one of the practical and successful farmers of his town.
		Pratt has been a Free Mason for twenty-five years and is prominently identified with the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.
	history.rays-place.com /bios/ny-genesee/pratt-c.htm (138 words)

	Daniel Pratt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eliza Holt, declared that Pratt’s parents "required their children to attend church and prayer-meetings and to avoid all vain and trifling conversations on the Sabbath Day...A novel was not permitted in the house." Pratt received limited education in district school no. 4 of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
		Pratt never tired of boasting that all materials in the construction of his gins, except the sheet steel for saws, were southern.
		Pratt was an ardent advocate of the establishment of agricultural and mechanical schools in order to train technical and managerial labor for southern industrialization.
	www.pratthistory.com /daniel_pratt.htm (8723 words)

	Pratt-Northam Industries
		Charles was also one of the founders of the original Black River Telephone Company.
		The company's charter of incorporation was allowed to expire on or about November 16, 1948, at which time 4,320 of the 4,800 outstanding shares of common stock were owned by the estate of Charles W. Pratt, with C. Walter Pratt owning the remaining 480 shares.
		Pratt continued to be active in the Gould Company, which he helped to found.
	www.northnet.org /prattnortham/industries.htm (731 words)

	STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY v. U S, 221 U.S. 1 (1910) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		Soon afterwards it was alleged the trustees organized the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Standard Oil Company of New York, the former having a capital stock of $3,000,000 and the latter a capital stock of $5, 000,000, subsequently increased to $10,000,000 and $15,000,000, respectively.
		By the decree which was entered it was adjudged that the sombining of the stocks of various companies in the hands of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in 1899 constituted a combination in restraint of trade and also an attempt to monopolize and a monopolization under 2 of the anti- trust act.
		I concur in holding that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its subsidiary companies constitute a combination in restraint of interstate commerce, and that they have attempted to monopolize and have monopolized parts of such commerce,-all in violation of what is known as the anti-trust act of 1890.
	supreme.justia.com /us/221/1/case.html (10512 words)

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		Pratt Company, developer of the internationally successful lighting kerosene "Astral Oil."28 The senior Pratt had cultivated in his family a love of wood architecture in the wild by building one of the first rustic "camps" in the southwest Adirondack Mountains in 1870.
		Pratt occupied the finished house for the first time during the winter of 1911, and the dining-room furniture was delivered personally by Peter Hall in February of that year.
		Charles departed for England just prior to the beginning of construction, though even after his return, and for many years following, his brother was the one to return to supervise the ongoing maintenance of the house, quietly tending to its needs.
	www.cs.columbia.edu /~becky/climb/gg5-raw-2.txt (5350 words)

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		Pratt Institute's campus, located in the historic landmark district of Clinton Hill in northern Brooklyn has evolved during the past century from a five block area to twenty-five acres.
		It was purchased by Pratt Institute in 1964 and became a residence hall.
		Caroline Ladd Pratt House 229 Clinton Avenue 1898 Architects: Babb, Cook and Willard Now the home of the President of Pratt, this house was built by Charles Pratt for his son Frederic and Frederic's wife, Caroline Ladd Pratt.
	pratt.edu /~cg520/frames_c/campus/text.txt (2032 words)

	nyc moving company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles Pratt and Company was an oil company that was formed in Brooklyn, New York in the United States by Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers in 1867.
		Pratt became a pioneer of the natural oil industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn.
		Charles Ellis gave up, but in 1866, Henry Rogers went to Pratt in New York, and told him he would take personal responsibility for the entire debt.
	www.freewebs.com /moving-online/nyc-moving-company (248 words)

	Millers Falls Company History: Gunn, Amidon, Pratt, Barber, Rose.
		The company's situation came to the attention of Henry L. Pratt, a prosperous lumber dealer and occasional speculator in waterpower rights who had returned to the area after operating a business in Detroit.
		(1) Pratt recommended that the firm relocate to Grouts Corner, a nearby village and stop at the junction of the Vermont and Massachusetts and the New London Northern railroads.
		James Moore had become involved with the company by virtue of his ownership of the tract where the new factory was to be built.
	oldtoolheaven.com /history/history1.htm (1457 words)

	Standard Oil Resource Center - standard oil company
		It was founded by John D. Rockefeller ida tarbell standard oil company (1839-1937) and partners in 1863, with the plan of making kerosene, which was sweeping the home lighting market, supplanting the commonly used whale oil (blubber).
		The founder Charles Pratt (1830-1891) and his protégé Henry Huttleston Rogers standard oil & sherman act (1840-1909) came with timeline of standard oil the deal.
		Company is now known as Marathon Oil Company, and was often a rival with in-state Standard spinoff Sohio.
	www.taxgloss.com /Tax-US_Companies_O_-_T-/Standard_Oil.html (1249 words)

	Pratt & Whitney - News - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The giant four-engine airplane is powered by four Pratt and Whitney F117 engines and uses a variety of systems and components built by Hamilton Sundstrand and Kaman Aerospace, two other leading Connecticut aerospace companies.
		The "Spirit of Connecticut" was formally dedicated at ceremonies held at the Connecticut Air National Guard Facility led by General Charles T. Robertson, commander-in-chief of U.S. Transportation Command and commander of the USAF Air Mobility Command.
		Pratt and Whitney, a United Technologies company (NYSE:UTX), is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.
	www.pratt-whitney.com /pr_101201.asp (371 words)

	Millers Falls Company History, 1931: the Goodell-Pratt Company
		It was in this environment, on March 29, 1931, that the principals of the Millers Falls Company and the struggling Goodell-Pratt Company elected to merge the firms.
		The companies were engaged in head-to-head competition in their marketing of similar lines of braces, breast drills, hand drills, push drills, automatic screwdrivers and hacksaws.
		Albert Goodell served as company president; Francis R. Pratt, the father of William M. Pratt, served as vice-president; and Frederick Goodell was employed as its clerk.
	www.oldtoolheaven.com /history/history9.htm (1407 words)

	The Twentieth Kansas Volunteer Infantry
		Company H, supporting a battery consisting of one Hotchkiss and one Gatling gun, deployed on the right of the railroad, and later company C deployed on the right of company H. After considerable firing, company I was ordered to relieve company H, whose supply of ammunition was short.
		Companies C, D, and I, having crossed the bridge, of which one span had been cut and dropped into the river, advanced and, being reinforced by companies G and E, of the second battalion, a charge was made, dislodging the enemy and driving them from the field.
		Companies C and E, under command of Major Bishop, moving north under cover of a strip of timber, surprised a body of insurgents, and moving by the left flank drove the enemy to the west and north in disorder, killing and wounding many.
	www.kansasguardmuseum.org /20thks.html (9860 words)

	Pfizer \| Exploring Our History \| Gallery of Leaders \| Charles Erhart
		Charles Erhart, like his cousin, Charles Pfizer, was born in Ludwigburg, Germany.
		In 1863, Erhart and Pfizer began importing crude argols — the tartar deposits formed in wine casks during the aging process—from France and Italy and set up their own refining operation for the manufacture of tartar and tartaric acid, which was used by bakers, beverage manufacturers, and in cooking.
		Pfizer Inc is a pharmaceutical company committed to helping people improve their health by discovering and developing medicines.
	www.pfizer.com /pfizer/history/charles_erhart.jsp (392 words)

	GOVERNOR: PRATT & WHITNEY BRINGS MORE PLANES TO PLATTSBURGH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pratt & Whitney landed its first plane in Plattsburgh last July, locating a Boeing 720 aircraft that is utilized as a flying test bed for its advanced design aircraft engines.
		Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies company, is a leader in the design, manufacture and support of engines for commercial, military and general aviation aircraft, and space propulsion systems.
		Charles A. Gargano, Chairman of Empire State Development, said, "Working closely with PARC, we knew that if this world class aviation company set up shop on the flight line, there was a possibility that additional aircraft and jobs would follow.
	www.state.ny.us /governor/press/01/may21_1_01.htm (581 words)

	Charles Pratt
		PRATT, Charles, philanthropist, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, 2 October, 1830.
		In 1867 he established the firm of Charles Pratt and Co., which has since been merged into the Standard oil company, of which he is an officer.
		Pratt has taken great interest in educational matters, and has founded in Brooklyn the Pratt industrial institute.
	www.famousamericans.net /charlespratt (298 words)

	Phineas Pratt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1662, Pratt presented to the General Court of Massachusetts a narrative entitled “A declaration of the affairs of the English people that first inhabited New England” to support his request for financial assistance.
		Phineas Pratt married Mary Priest, daughter of Degory and Sarah Allerton Vincent Priest (the sister of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton, Sarah had been married to Jan Vincent and widowed before she married Degory Priest).
		Mary Pratt outlived her husband; the date of her death is not certain but she did receive stipends from the Town of Charlestown in 1683/4 and 1686/7 (Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Vol.
	www.pilgrimhall.org /prattphineas.htm (610 words)

	Pratt Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States and offers programs in art, architecture, fashion design, design, creative writing, library science, and other areas.
		Charles Pratt (1830-1891) was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.
		Charles Pratt, one of eleven children, was born the son of a Massachusetts carpenter in 1830.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pratt_Institute (1730 words)

	Charles Pratt and Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early 18970s, Pratt and Rogers became involved in conflicts with John D. Rockefeller's infamous South Improvement Company, which was basically a scheme to obtain favorable net rates from the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and other railroads through a secret system of rebates.
		Rockefeller approached Charles Pratt with his plans of cooperation and consolidation.
		Pratts' protégé, Henry H. Rogers soon rose to become one of the key men of Standard Oil, and was a Vice-President by 1890.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Pratt_and_Company (1039 words)

	HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY
		He had allowed the president of the company to wrestle with the excitement in his own way, but things were now in such critical shape that he came forward in a last attempt to save the organisation by which he had been able to concentrate in his own hands the refining interests of Cleveland.
		The acquiescence of the "railroad kings" in the refusal of the oil men to recognise representatives of the South Improvement Company was followed by an unwilling promise to break the contracts with the company.
		Hasson that the agreement of March 25, between the railroad companies and the joint committee of producers and refiners, was on a basis of perfect equality for all, and the inference was, how could Mr.
	www.history.rochester.edu /fuels/tarbell/UPTO103.HTM (4911 words)

	HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY
		Altogether the ablest explanation was that of H. Rogers, of Charles Pratt and Company, to a reporter of the New York Tribune:
		Warden, Frew and Company, he said, were prepared to buy us out, and I asked him whether he considered that as the best thing to do; whether we had not better hold on and fight it through, for I believed that these difficulties would not continue; that we would get our oil.
		Its president was Charles Lockhart; Its directors William Frew, David Bushnell, H. Flagler, and W. Warden-all members of the Standard Oil Company and four of them stockholders in the South Improvement Company.
	www.history.rochester.edu /fuels/tarbell/UPTO166.HTM (6177 words)

	Social Science and History Department - Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, MD
		Pratt owns a number of histories of particular families, some in book form and some as microfiche copies of books.
		Print sources can be located by using the Pratt catalog under the author or title of the book; no single subject heading covers all of them.
		Pratt has a number of such periodicals for middle atlantic, east coast, southern, and mid western states.
	www.pratt.lib.md.us /slrc/ssh/genealogypratt.html (2825 words)

	webGED: The Bement Family Data Page
		CHARLES M. PRATT (1830-1891), American oil magnate, with Henry H. Rogers founded Charles Pratt Company (1867) for refining crude oil; business acquired by John D. Rockefeller (1874); became executive in Standard Oil Company.
		Charles Millard Pratt was the Secretary of the Standard Oil Company, and the son of Charles M. Pratt, who gave the Pratt Institute to Brooklyn, New York in 1887.
		Putney married, November 26, 1906, Georgie Van Brunt, born December 26, 1878, daughter of Charles H. Van Brunt, chief justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Appelate Division of New York.
	www.bementfamily.com /webged/bement.wbg/wga45.html (1900 words)

	Charleston, SC Business Information - Alliance Investor Directory
		A commercial real estate company utilizing the latest technologies to better facilitate superior client relations, whether servicing, developing or brokering.
		An energy-based holding company whose businesses include regulated electric and natural gas utility operations, telecommunications and other non-regulated energy-related businesses.
		A diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services.
	www.charleston-for-business.com /investors.php?alpha=all (637 words)

	Subdivision Bonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles A. Pratt Construction Company, 128 Cal.App.3d 830, 180 Cal.Rptr.
		Commercial Insurance Company, 251 Conn. 906, 738 A.2d 1093 (Conn., 1999) interpreting a Connecticut statute to require the surety's completion of the improvements only to the extent necessary to serve conveyed lots.
		Finding that the subdivision law did not require the developer to guarantee payment for labor and materials the court held that the surety was confined to the measure of liability as contemplated by the law requiring the Subdivision Bond.
	www.rkmc.com /Subdivision_Bonds.htm (6391 words)

	Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The largest contemporary factories are those of the American Manufacturing Company (rope), and the Eberhard-Faber Company (pencils).
		The Brooklyn Pratt Works of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Kent and North Twelfth Streets, was the refinery of Charles Pratt and Company before it was absorbed by the gigantic Rockefeller men mergers of the 1880's.
		The Pratt company was famous for its "Astral Oil,, a high-grade kerosene so widely used that it provoked the remark that "the holy lamps of Tibet are primed with 'Astral Oil.'"
	www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/greenpoint.html (448 words)

	St Charles Public Library - Local History
		Reference Local history books on St. Charles and Kane County are available in the Reference section of the library.
		Charles: St. Charles Community Unit School District, 1990.
		Charles Heritage Center are especially helpful in locating information on the history of St.
	www.st-charles.lib.il.us /history/historicalbuildings.htm (869 words)

	George Shultz ~~ Top Gun over Arnie Schwarzenegger, Cheney, Rice and the other fascist synarchist woven into our ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shultz's mother was Margaret Lennox Pratt, the granddaughter of Charles Pratt (1830-1891), who was a partner of John D. Rockefeller after merging his oil company, Charles Pratt and Company, with Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874.
		Bechtel Corp., the company of which Shultz was president and director for eight years and is currently senior counsel and board member, was financed by Schroeder, Rockefeller and Company.
		Henry Pratt Judson was the president of the Rockefeller-established University of Chicago.
	www.pegmusic.com /crazies-shultz.html (3455 words)

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