Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Pratt, Alexander February 14, 1860 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com November 29, 2011, 5:40 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist ALEXANDER PRATT, Street Railway Superintendent. Working in Tacoma, Wash., in 1890 on the first electric railway line built west of the Rockies, Alexander Pratt became interested in street railway construction, and the following year removed to San Francisco and remained there for ten years in various railway positions, finally as assistant superintendent of a division for the Market Street Railway Co. In 1901 he was offered the position of superintendent of the Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. and immediately came to Hawaii to assume that post. The local company was in its infancy at that time, starting operations with only five cars on Dec. 31, 1901. Since then the street railway system has been extended to cover virtually all portions of Honolulu, and now operates more than forty cars. During this period of expansion Mr. Pratt has continued as superintendent and at present more than 200 employes are working under his direction. He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Feb. 14, 1860, the son of George and Barbara (Chapman) Pratt. He attended the public schools of Scotland, but left school when a boy and worked in Aberdeenshire before coming to the United States in 1881. In 1897 he married Alice Tolson of Kankakee, Ill., and they have two daughters, Mrs. E. C. Counts of California and Mrs. Alice Burke of Honolulu. Mr. Pratt is a Mason and a Shriner. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/pratt471bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb