Charles Pratt then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
21 Facts About Charles Pratt
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Charles Pratt recruited Henry H Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867.
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An advocate of education, Charles Pratt founded and endowed the Charles Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, now a renowned art college.
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Charles Pratt was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, as one of eleven children.
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Charles Pratt was the son of Elizabeth Stone and Asa Pratt, a carpenter.
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Charles Pratt spent three winters as a student at Wesleyan Academy.
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Charles Pratt realized that whale oil could be replaced by petroleum distillates to light lamps.
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Charles Pratt became a pioneer of the petroleum industry as new wells were established during the 1860s in western Pennsylvania.
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Previously, Charles Pratt had bought whale oil from Ellis in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, his and Rogers' coastal hometown.
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Charles Pratt made Rogers foreman of his Brooklyn refinery, with a promise of a partnership if sales ran over $50,000 annually.
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Charles Pratt busted the union, and his strategies for breaking up the organization were adopted by other refineries.
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Charles Pratt's family were involved with his business ventures and with Standard Oil.
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In 1923 his son Herbert Lee Charles Pratt rose to become head of Standard Oil of New York.
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Charles Pratt is credited with recognizing the growing need for trained industrial workers in a changing economy.
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In 1910, Charles Pratt endowed the construction of the Charles Pratt School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Charles Pratt was an organizing member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, a prominent and extant congregation near Pratt Institute worshiping in the 1887 edifice supported by Pratt and today known as perhaps the finest extant 19th Century church interior in New York City.
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The widower Charles Pratt married her younger sister Mary Helen Richardson in September 1863.
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Charles Pratt moved to a country home in Glen Cove, New York, about 1890.
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Charles Pratt died the next year, aged 60, in New York City.
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Charles Pratt is interred in a sarcophagus here, as are seven out of his eight children, and many of his grandchildren.
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Charles Pratt was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean 220 miles off the coast of Africa while en route from Aruba to Freetown, Sierra Leone.