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:
Portrait above - M&T Bank
Portrait - Men of Buffalo, Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co, 1902
Portrait - Beautiful Forest lawn
Biography - Reprinted from Geneological and Family History of Western New York
Monument in Forest Lawn Cemetery
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
Pratt's carriage accompanied the escort of the assassinated Abraham Lincoln
On other Websites:
Biography - The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (online June 2020)
Biography - Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York, pp. 6-10 Includes portrait (online June 2020)
Biography - Olmsted Parks in Buffalo, New York, by S. M. Broderick (online June 2020)