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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    A. M. PRATT, M. D. The subject of this sketch was born in York District, S.
C., November, 1827, and is the son of John J. and Dorcas E. (Moore) Pratt. He
was reared in Unionville, S. C. where he received his primary and literary
education, and at the age of eighteen began the study of medicine. Having
graduated from the colleges of Charleston, the Jefferson of Philadelphia, and
Stuyvesant University of New York City, as M. D., he at once entered into the
practice of his profession in his native State, where he remained for two years.
After leaving there he located in Carnesville, Ga., in 1853; there he married
the daughter of Dr. Henry Freeman, who was a distinguished physician and who
figured prominently in the Legislative Halls of Georgia as a Representative and
Senator.

    Dr. Pratt having practiced his profession for several years in a successful
and lucrative way, and having established himself as a skilled physician and
successful practitioner, concluded to move West; having done so, he located in
Cherokee County, Ala., in the year 1857, and in 1860 at Centre, where in 1863,
he was appointed Post Surgeon, a position he filled to the close of the war.

    Dr. Pratt is one of the most successful and popular physicians of
Northeastern Alabama. Although the war dissipated his ample means, he has long
since recovered, and is at this writing, again possessed of a moderate
competency. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity and several other
orders, and is a believer in evolution and all other subjects which promote and
foster liberty of thought and freedom of opinions. The Doctor has three sisters
who possess rare literary attainments: one a playwright of considerable ability,
and who has translated many foreign periodical magazines, novels, and other
literature into the English language; another who has written several novels and
private histories of the United States. The third sister is an extensive
traveler (at this time she is sojourning in Europe), having crossed the Atlantic
Ocean no less than a half dozen times, and visited all the provinces and
principal cities of Europe, and personally met several of the potentates.

    John J. Pratt, a younger brother of the Doctor, is an inventor of
considerable note, being the inventor of one of the first type writers: also the
inventor of the type writer which was awarded the highest gold medal at the New
Orleans Exposition. He, John J. Pratt, Jr., is the superintendent of the Hammond
Type Writing Company of New York City. The Doctor's father, John J. Pratt, Sr.,
was a native of Newberry, S. C., and was twenty-one years Probate Judge of Union
District, that State; he was also a prominent merchant and shoe and leather
manufacturer. He came to Cherokee Comity. Ala., in 1851, and was here an
extensive planter and slave-holder. The Doctor's grandfather, John J. Pratt, was
a native of Salem, Mass. He moved from there to Fauquier County, Va., in 1780,
and on to Newberry, S. C., in 1790. His forefather came over in the noted
"Mayflower" in the year 1620.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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