The Pratt Family in Buffalo, NY - Table of Contents
Pascal Paoli Pratt
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According to a Pratt descendent (in 2008), Pascal Paoli is named after the great Corsican democratically elected president Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli (Wikipedia entry) who designed and wrote the Corsican Constitution. The Pratts had no Italian bloodlines. |
On Buffalo Architecture and History Website:
Biography - Reprinted from Geneological and Family History of Western New York
Monument in Forest Lawn Cemetery
Portrait above: Men of Buffalo, Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co, 1902Portrait - Beautiful Forest lawn
Photo: The Pascal P. Pratt Residence - The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo, Frank H. Severance, ed. Pub. by the Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 326
Pascal Paoli Pratt and the Manufacturers and Traders Bank - M&T Bank Celebrtates 150 Years
Pratt's carriage accompanied the escort of the assassinated Abraham Lincoln
On other Websites:
Biography - The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Biography - Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York, pp. 6-10 Includes portrait
Biography - Olmsted Parks in Buffalo, New York, by S. M. Broderick
Pratt and the park system - Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo Park and Parkway System, by Francis R. Kowsky
