Pratt Family Collection
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Abstract
Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M. Walker and his wife, their potato field, R.W's first car, sharpening a plowshare. Second interview (3 leaves) with R.W. Pratt concerns his grandfather, James Pratt, who survived being caught in a blizzard, his farm near the Red River, R.W. and his brother, John D., plowing, selling wheat, and his father, George. Also includes obituaries.