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and of Benjamin and Lydia (Stearns) Johnson, and a descendant of Ricliard Dana, who came to Cambridge. Mass., in 1640. She was graduated from Allen seminary, Rochester, N.Y., in 1852, and later pursued special stuilies at Harvard and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was married in Syracuse. N. Y.. Oct. 7, 1856. to Cliarles Spencer Hicks, who died in 1858. She was presi- dent of the Social Art club, Syracuse, 1875-80 ; director of the Prang Normal Art classes, 1877- 1900. and was married .secondly, April 15, 1900, to Louis Prang (q.v.) of Boston, Mass. She was president of the Massachusetts Floral Emblem society. 1898-1901, and a member of numerous philanthropic, progressive, educational and social clubs. Her published works include : Hie Use of Models (with John S. Clark, 1886); Form Study without Clay (1887) ; The Prang Two Courses in Form Study and Drawiiig and an Elementary Course in Art Instruction (with John S. Clark and Walter S. Perry (1886-1900) ; Suggestions for Color Instruction (with John S. Clark and Louis Prang. 1893) ; Art Instruction for Children in Primary Schools (2 vols., 1900). and many contri- butions to educational and art periodicals.

PRATT, Calvin Edward, soldier and jurist, was born in Princeton, Mass., Jan. 23, 1828; son of Eben (or Edward) A. and Miriaime (Stratton) Pratt ; grandson of Capt. Joshua Pratt of Shrews- bury. Mass., and of Samuel Stratton of Princeton, who settled in Plymouth, Mass., about 1622. He attended Wilbraham and Worcester academies ; taught school in Uxbridge. Suttou and Worcester, Mass., studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was married to Miss Ruggles of Rochester, Mass. ; practised in Worcester, 1852- 59, and in Brooklyn, X.Y., 1859-61, and studied forensic medicine. He was a member of the Massachusetts Democratic Central committee and a delegate from Massachusetts to the Demo- cratic National convention at Cincinnati, June 2, 1856. He belonged to the Massachusetts infantry, and at the opening of the civil war organized the 31st N.Y. volunteers, led them in the battle of Bull Run and was promoted colonel. He was wounded in the face by a bullet at the battle of Gaines's Mill, June 27. 1862 ; was promoted briga- dier-general of volunteers, Sept. 10. 1862 ; com- manded a brigade at Antietam. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and resigned from service, July 1. 1863. He w,is a lawyer in Brooklyn, N.Y.. 18.59-Cl, 186.3-69 and 1.S91-95: collector of internal revenue. 186.5-66 ; judge of the supreme court of New York, 1869-91; associate judge of the appellate division of the supreme court, 1895- 96. He died in Rorhester. Mass.. Aug. 3, 1896.

PRATT, Charles, philanthropist, was born at Watertown. Mass., Oct. 2. 1830; son of Asa and Eliza (Stone) Pratt ; grandson of Jacob Pratt of

Maiden, Mass., and a descendant of Richard Pratt, who, emigrated from Essex, England, to America and settled at Maiden, Mass. He attended the academy at Wilbraham, Mass., one year; in 1849 engaged as a clerk in a paint and oil store in Bos- ton, and afterward became a member of the firm of Reynolds, Devoe and Pratt in New York city. He was twice married ; first, in 1854, to Lydia Ann, daughter of Thomas Richardson of Belmont, Mass., and had one son, Charles Millard (q.v.), and one daughter, Lydia Richardson. His first wife died in 1861, and he married in 1863, her sister, Mary Helen Richardson, by whom he had five sons and one daughter. He purchased the oil part of the business, subsequently built a petro- leum refinery at Greenpoint, N.Y., where he man- ufactured Pratt's Astral Oil under the firm name of Charles Pratt & Co., which later became the Pratt Manufacturing company and was finally absorbed by the Standard Oil company, in which he was a director and officer. He was a trustee of Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1867-91 ; president of the board, 1879-91. and in 1886 con- tributed $160,000 for a new building. He founded the Pratt Institute at Brooklyn in 1887, established as an industrial, manual and training school ; built the tenement known as the " Astral," its income to be used for the benefit of the Institute, and left an endowment of $2,000,000, at his death. The administration of the institute was continued by his sons, Charles Millard Pratt, George D. Pratt, Herbert L. Pratt, John T. Pratt and Frederic B. Pratt, who constituted a board of trustees. In an address made on Founder's day 1891, he said : ' ' The giving that counts is the giv- ing of one's self." His many charities included the establishment of the Asa Pratt fund for a free reading room in Watertown, Mass., in memory of his father, and his large contribution to the erection of the Emmanuel Baptist church of Brooklyn, of which he was a member. He died in New York city. May 4, 1891.

PRATT, Charles Millard, educationist, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1855; son of Charles (q.v.) and Lydia Ann (Richardson) Pratt. He was graduated at Adelphi academy in 1875 and at Amherst in 1879. He entered his father's business, and on May 8. 1884, married Mary Sey- mour, daughter of Governor Luzon B. Morris (q.v. ). He became a director and secretary of the Standard Oil company, of the Long Island rail- road and of the Boston and ]Maine railroad, and director of Mechanics' National bank and of the Brooklyn Trust Co. In 1891, on the death of his father, he was elected president of the board of trustees of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. N.Y., liis brother, Frederic B. Pratt, serving as secretary and treasurer. He served as a trustee of Amherst college and of Vassar college.