1. Enoch Pratt was an American businessman in Baltimore, Maryland.
15 Facts About Enoch Pratt
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Enoch Pratt earned his fortune as an owner of business interests beginning in the 1830s originally as a hardware wholesaler, and later expanding into railroads, banking and finance, iron works, and steamship lines and other transportation companies.
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The young Enoch Pratt was educated at the former Bridgewater Academy in the neighboring town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts's Town Common.
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The business proved successful, and six years later, Pratt married Maria Louisa Hyde, the daughter of Samuel G and Catherine Hyde, whom he met at his church on August 1,1837.
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Enoch Pratt served as president of the National Farmers' and Planters' Bank of Baltimore, and was the controlling stockholder in the Maryland Steamboat Company.
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Enoch Pratt became president of the Baltimore Clearing House and the Maryland Bankers' Association, in addition to establishing a role in several transportation companies.
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Enoch Pratt was a director for three other railroads, including the famous Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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Enoch Pratt was a contemporary and associate of philanthropist Thomas Kelso.
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Enoch Pratt paid off several of the congregation's large debts, bought a new organ, and financed significant remodeling of the church in the 1890s.
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Enoch Pratt gave much of his time and wealth to Baltimore's cultural and charitable institutions.
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Enoch Pratt served as a trustee of the Peabody Institute.
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Enoch Pratt founded the "House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children" which he offered on his former farm property at Cheltenham, and the Maryland School for the Deaf and Dumb located at Frederick on South Market Street.
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Enoch Pratt died on September 17,1896, at his summer residence "Tivoli", a mansion of Italianate style which he bought in 1870, off Woodbourne Avenue in northeast Baltimore.
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The mystery was explained when on January 21,1882, in a letter addressed to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Enoch Pratt offered a gift of a central library, four branch libraries, and a financial endowment of $1,058,333.
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The Enoch Pratt mansion was occupied by his wife Maria Louisa Hyde Enoch Pratt until her death in 1913.