PRATT
PRATT
opened an office for the practice of law in Upper
Marlborough, Md., in 1823. He was married to
Adelaide, daughter of Governor Joseph Kent of
Maryland. He was a representative from Prince
George county in tlie Maryland legislature, 1832-
35 ; a Harrison elector for the
eighth district of Maryland
in the electoral college of
1837 ; president of the last ex-
ecutive council of Maryland
in 1837, and a state senator,
1838-44. He was governor of
Maryland, 1844-47, and during
his term of office established the financial stand-
ing of the state. He resumed the practice of law
in Annapolis, Md., in 1848, and was elected U.S.
senator to succeed D. Stewart, appointed admin-
istrator to complete the term of Reverdy John-
son (q. V. ) , resigned. Senator Pratt was re-elected
for a full term, 1851-57. He supported the Con-
federacy during the civil war and was confined
for a few weeks in Fort Monroe. He was a
delegate to the Democratic national convention,
1864, and the Union convention, Philadelphia,
1866. He died in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9, 1869.
PRATT, Waldo Selden, musician and educa- tor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 10, 1857 ; son of the Rev. Dr. Lewellyn and Sarah Putnam (Gulliver) Pratt ; grandson of Selden Mather and Rebecca Clark (Nott) Pratt and of John and Sarah (Putnam) Gulliver, and a descendant of Lieut. William Pratt of Saybrook, Conn.; Serg. John Nott of Wethersfield, Conn.; Alice South worth (second wife of Governor Bradford), and Lemuel Gulliver, Milton, Mass. He grad- uated from "Williams college, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881 ; was a student at Johns Hopkins university, 1878-80, and fellow in gesthetics and the history of art there, 1879-80 ; was assistant director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city, 1880-82, and in the latter year removed to Hart- foi'd. Conn., to become professor of ecclesiastical music and hymnology at the Hai-tford Theolo- gical seminary. He was also organist of the Asylum Hill Congregational church, and con- ductor of the Hosmer Hall Choral union, Hart- ford, 1882-91 ; was conductor of the St. Cecilia club, 1884-88 ; registrar of Hartford Theological seminary, 1888-95 ; in 1891 became instructor in elocution, Trinity college, Hartford ; in 1895 lecturer on musical history and science at Smith college, Northampton, Mass., and was lecturer at Mt. Holyoke college, 1896-99. He was married, July 5, 1887, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mary (Richmond) Smyly of New York city. He was elected a member of the Music Teachers' National association and of the International Society of Musicians, and honorary vice-president of the American Guild of Organists. In 1898 he VIII. — 26
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received the degree of Mus.D., honoria causa,
from Syracuse university. He edited : St. Nicholas
Songs (1885); Songs of Worship (1887); was
musical editor of ^i'ds to Common Worship (1887),
and of the Century Dictionary (1892); is the
author of : Musical Ministries in the Church
(1901), and contributions to cyclopedias and
periodicals.
PRATT, Zadock, representative, was born in Stephenstown, Rensselaer county, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1790 ; son of Zadock and Hannah (Pickett) Pratt; grandson of Zephaniah and Abigail Pratt, and of Benjamin Pickett of New Milford, Conn., and a descendant of Lieut. William Pratt, the immigrant 1633. He assisted his father who, besides being a tanner and shoe- maker, carried on a small farm, and in 1810 he invented a pump, which came into general use in the tanning business. He became an inde- pendent saddler and harness-maker in 1813; was called to join the forces raised bj' Gov- ernor Tompkins for the defence of New York in 1814, and in 1815, in partnership with his brothers, conducted a tannery in Lexington, which was removed in 1824 to Scohariekill, Greene county, and became the nucleus of the town of Prattsville. He was actively influen- tial in establishing other tanneries throughout the state, and received the first silver medal awarded by the New York Institute for hemlock sole-leather in 1837. He retired from business in 1845 and engaged in farming the following year. He was colonel of the 116th New York infantry, 1823-26 ; a state senator in 1830 ; a presidential elector on the Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1836, and a Democratic representative from the eighth New York district in the 25tli and 28th con- gresses, 1837-39 and 1843-45. He was an advocate of cheap postage and of the gratuitous distribu- tion of foreign seeds to the farmers of the United States ; submitted the plans and estimates for the new general post-office in Washington, which wei'e adopted, and organized the national bureau of statistics. He established and was president of the bank at Prattsville in 1843, was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1852, and a presidential elector on the Pierce and King ticket in 1852. He was an extensive traveler, a lecturer, president of several industrial institu- tions and a liberal contributor to religious and
