Obit of Chelsea C. PRATT (Dr.) (b.1877 d.1924), Blue Earth Co., MN

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Mankato Free Press, 12/22/1924, 1:6 (Poss pg
20 of microfilm):

Chelsea C. Pratt Dies; Long Sick
Well Known Physcian Passed Away
Late on Saturday Afternoon
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    Dr. Chelsea Caroll Prattt who lived on Mankato Rout 1,
and who has been patholngist (sic), at the Mankato clinic
for a number of years, pass away Saturday afternoon at
3:30 o'clock at Immanuel Hosipital, following and illness
which had lasted since the middle of May.
    Dr. Pratt was well - known and liked in Mankato as well
as throughout the state.  He moved to Mankato with his wife
and son, Chelsea W., twelve years ago last February.
    When he first moved here he conducted the state board
laboratory for the Mankato physicians.  He was an active
member of many mendical and fraternal organizations.
    Dr. Pratt was born on June 6, 1877, at Chippewa Falls,
Wis.  He graduated from the Universtiy of Minnesota in 
1905 and was on the faculty of the institution for about a
year following his graduation.  He was married to Blanche
Wheeler of Minneapolis on June 5, 1907.
    After acting on the faculty at the University, Dr. Pratt
went to the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks,
N. Dak., where he did state laboratory work for about
fourteen months.  He later carried on a tuberculosis 
investigation for the Minnesota State Board of Health
after which he became associated in general practice
with Dr. S. Marx White of Minneapolis.  He later
moved to Makato.

            Was in World's War

    During the World's War, Dr. Pratt served in the
United States, France and Montenegro, and was
decorated twice, once by the Serbian Military
Department and once the the Servian Red Cross.
During the time that he was in service, he spent one 
year in America, and about eight months at Base
Hospital 51, Tulle, France, from which place he went
to Montenegro where he was director of public health
work, later returning home.
    He is survived by his wife, two sons, Chelsea W.,
age thirteen, and Wilbur C., aged eleven; his mother
Mrs. Mary Pratt of San Diego, California; two sisters
Mrs. C. M. McConn, of Bethelem, Pennsylvania, and
Mrs. Charles Kettle ofd West Cliffe, Colorado; and three
brothers, Benjamin A., of Minneapolis, Robert A., of
La Grand, Oregon, and C. Harlow of Urban, Illinois.
    Dr. Pratt was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal
Church and a member of the following organizations:
The American Medical Association; The Blue Earth
County Medical Association; The Minnesota Pathological
society; The Blue Earth County Guernsy Association;
The American Legion; The Royal Arcanun;  The Elks;
Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity; and Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, social fraterity.
    The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon
at St. John's Episcopal church at two o'clock.  The 
vestrymen of St. John's Espiscopal church will be the
active pallbearers and the doctors of Mankato clinic,
the honoray pallbearers.  Revernd Charles M Branden
of Wassec will have charge of the services.  Interment
will be made at Glenwood Cemetery.