Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Pratt, William 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 January 31, 2008, 1:27 am

Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

William Pratt, general farmer in the Township of Hopkins, has been a resident 
of Whiteside County since 1854, and a citizen of the State of Illinois since 
1842, when he removed from New York to Kane County. After a stay of about one 
year's duration at Elgin, he went to McHenry County, where he was engaged in 
farming, and building the Fox River Valley Railroad. On coming to Whiteside 
Co., he took a contract to grade the railroad from Sterling to Fulton. While 
fulfilling his obligations with the building corporation, he bought, in 1856, 
a farm in Hopkins Township. On this he settled on the termination of the 
business mentioned, and has since pushed his agricultural operations with 
profit. He was born May 16, 1817, m Chenango Co., N. Y., and is the son of 
William and Cynthia (Case) Pratt, who were born in the State of Connecticut. 
He is one of a family of four children named Harriet, Jerome, William and 
Ralph. Mr. Pratt was married Oct. 8, 1855, in Prophetstown, Whiteside County, 
to Euphemia J., daughter of David and Lydia (Butler) Ramsay. Her parents were 
natives of New England and were of Scotch lineage. William, Hannah M., Luther 
B., Euphemia J. and Lydia A. were the names of their children. Mrs. Pratt was 
born Sept. 9, 1822, in Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. Le Roi W. Pratt, her only 
child, was born Jan 25, 1857, and graduated in 1882, at the Union College of 
Law, Chicago. Mr. Pratt is a Democrat in political preference and acts in 
local and general issues in consonance with the principles, of that party. 
Mrs. Pratt is a communicant of the Episcopal Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/whiteside/bios/pratt2156nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 2.5 Kb