Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Pratt, Jr, John Scott Boyd February 10, 1892 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHN SCOTT BOYD PRATT, JR., Plantation Official. A descendant of early 
American missionaries to Hawaii, John S. B. Pratt, Jr., turned for a career to 
the primary industry of the Territory-the culture of sugar cane-after an 
extensive college course designed to fit him for that work.
  Mr. Pratt was born in Greenbush Heights, Albany, N.Y., on Feb. 10, 1892, but 
his mother and grandmother both had been born in Honolulu, descendants of Dr. 
G. P. Judd, who arrived in Hawaii in 1828, and Mr. Pratt accompanied his 
parents to the islands when he was but nine months old. He is the son of John 
Scott Boyd Pratt, M.D., and Sarah Catherine (Dickson) Pratt.
  Receiving his preliminary education in the schools of Honolulu, Mr. Pratt 
attended the University of Hawaii for two years, transferring to Cornell 
University for a two-year course that brought the degree of B.S. The 
University of Hawaii later awarded him the degree of M.S.
  Returning to Hawaii in 1915, Mr. Pratt was employed as an associate 
agriculturist at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association experiment station 
for two years, leaving in 1917 to accept a commission as first lieutenant in 
the United States army for the war period. He returned to the islands in 1918 
and was appointed overseer for the Kahuku Plantation Co. After a year’s 
service at Kahuku he became head overseer for the Kilauea Sugar Plantation, a 
position he held for three years. He was again with the Experiment Station in 
1922 and 1923 and on Jan. 1, 1924, he was appointed assistant manager of the 
McBryde plantation on Kauai.
  Mr. Pratt is a member of the American Legion, the Commercial Club of 
Honolulu and the Kauai Chamber of Commerce. He is a Republican. He married 
Elizabeth Kastle on July 15, 1919, and they have one child, John Scott Boyd 
Pratt, III.


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