- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Daniel Pratt (1799-1873)
- Creator:
- Moffson, Steven H.
- Date of Original:
- 2004-11-18
- Subject:
- Industrialists--Georgia
Businessmen--Georgia
Businesspeople--Georgia
Politicians--Georgia
Legislators--Georgia
Pratt, Daniel, 1799-1873 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Daniel Pratt. Daniel Pratt was an industrialist who built Neoclassical-style houses in Milledgeville in the 1820s and then moved to Alabama, where he manufactured cotton gins and founded the town he named Prattville. Pratt was born in 1799 in Temple, New Hampshire, to a poor family that provided him with an intermittent grade-school education. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Aaron Kimball Putnam, a carpenter from the neighboring town of Wilton. In 1819 he sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, to Savannah, where he believed he would find greater opportunities. He remained in Savannah for nearly two years before moving to Georgia's new capital, Milledgeville.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/daniel-pratt-1799-1873/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Daniel Pratt (1799-1873)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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