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NATHANIEL PALMER PRATT

    Nathaniel Palmer Pratt was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, August 16, 1858,
both parents being native Georgians.

    He was graduated, in June, 1878, from Washington and Lee University,
Virginia, receiving diplomas granted for distinguished proficiencies in the
following schools of the University, to-wit:

    Mineralogy and Geology, Chemistry, Astronomy, Moral Philosophy, Modern
Languages.

    After graduation from Washington and Lee, he accepted the election, by the
Board of Trustees, as Principal of the Sylvania Academy, a high school of about
one hundred pupils, at Sylvania, Georgia, which position he held for several
years. He later resigned and engaged in Geological Surveys for the State of
Georgia, and for the Richmond and Danville railroad company in Georgia, and
across the coal and iron fields in the State of Alabama. Later, in 1890, he
founded the N. P. Pratt Laboratory for analytical and Technical Chemistry, and
at that time developed and invented the N. P. Pratt Sulphuric Acid Process,
which process according to "Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering" is now
producing more Sulphuric acid in the United States than all the special
sulphuric acid processes combined. The total production for the United States is
8,000,000 tons per annum.

    In Chemical and Mining Engineering he has designed and erected about forty
of the largest Chemical and Mining plants with their auxiliaries, including
railroads and Hydro-Electric power plants. The two great war plants of the
British Government in the Provence of Ontario, Canada, were built and operated
under the Pratt process. The Picric Acid War Plant, of the United States
government at Kansas City, Missouri, was also built and operated under the Pratt
Process, this plant consisting of 1,200,000 cu. ft. chamber capacity, one of the
largest single unit plants in the world.

In 1910, he was selected by Attorney General Wickersham, of the Taft
Administration, to report to the Government in detail on the operation of the
Copper smelter of the Anaconda Mining Company in Montana, the largest
metallurgical plant of its kind in the world, with a view of converting into
useful products the waste fumes from the smelter gases; namely, sulphur dioxide
and arsenious oxide.

    In general, he has been successfully practicing Chemical Mining, and
metallurgical Engineering since leaving Washington and Lee University, in 1878.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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