Description: Please note we do not work weekends. All offers, questions, or concerns may not be answered untilMonday. Please understand this means you may need to resubmit your offer Sunday evening. Thank you forsupporting our libraries and have a great weekend. Charles Pratt (October 2, 1830 – May 4, 1891) was an American businessman. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He recruited Henry H. Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867. Seven years later, Pratt and Rogers agreed to join John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.An advocate of education, Pratt founded and endowed the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, now a renowned art college. He and his children built country estates in Glen Cove, New York, which became known as the Gold Coast in the 1920s on the North Shore of Long Island. In 1916, Standard Oil had a steamship tanker, the first of its class, built at Newport News, Virginia, and it was named in honor of Pratt. This is a Privately Printed Biography of Charles Pratt, two hundred fifty copies printed on Hand and Arrows paper, and bound in boards for private distribution. This volume has a small card in it for Mr. Frederic B. Pratt. There is a penciled notation on free end sheet, The top of the box is torn. Pages and bindings are tight. Slight foxing to end sheets. Paper label on cover and spine. 40 pp. All proceeds benefit the Libraries of Pima County. Please review all photos. This listing has beendonated. Please note that the listing is for what you see in the listing. We photograph all of it so youknow what you
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: Limited Edition, Boxed
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Personalized: No
Publisher: Privately Printed
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1930
