Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Evening Post prints the following account of the life of Daniel Pratt...
...Daniel Pratt was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1809. He was apprenticed to a carpenter and followed that trade for a time, but disappeared suddenly and was not seen at home again for a dozen years. When he returned his mind was unbalanced, and from that time on he led a wandering life...
...almost every person graduated from a college in the Middle and Eastern States during the last twenty-five or thirty years the name and face of Daniel Pratt are familiar. He, in fact, adopted himself into the fraternity of college undergraduates, looked on them as his friends, made himself at home at their tables and on their campuses, and was never so pleased as when he was exciting himself and, as he believed, arousing their enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That...
Transit gloria mundi, and with it there has departed one of the world's noblest thinkers. It is with deep grief that we announce the death of the Great American Traveller. Daniel Pratt is dead. We shall all miss his familiar figure when the spring of the year returns...
First round (singles) - Ludington vs. Kellogg, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Pratt vs. R. Beach, 6-2, 6-3; Slocum vs. Hurd, 6-4, 6-3; Thacher vs. Jenks, 6-0, 6-4; F. Beach vs. Hall, 6-5 6-3; Ball vs. Paddock (defaulted); Harmer vs. Brinley (defaulted); Notman vs. Gell (defaulted...