Background
Pratt, Harry Davis was born on April 13, 1915 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Harry Edward and Ethel Mae (Davis) Pratt.
Pratt, Harry Davis was born on April 13, 1915 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Harry Edward and Ethel Mae (Davis) Pratt.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts State College, 1936; Master of Science, Massachusetts State College, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1941.
Assistant entomologist, United States Public Health Service Malaria Control War Areas, San Juan, P.R., 1942-1946; chief medical entomological laboratory, United States Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, 1946-1953; chief insect rodent tr., United States Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, 1953-1963; chief Aedes aegypti control training, United States Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, 1964-1968; chief insect rodent control training, Environmental Control Agency, Atlanta, 1968-1972; consultant, teacher, writer, Atlanta, since 1972. Special consultant Economics Cooperative Administrn., Saigon, Vietnam, 1950, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1966, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1969.
United methodist South Carolina, 2003—2008. Fellow Entomological Society of America (life). Member American Mosquito Control Association (president 1967), Entol.
Society Washington, Georgia Entomological Society.
Married Caroline Georgine Kreiss, April 13, 1944 (deceased May 1951). Children: Harry Davis Junior, Katherine Maria Pratt Garrison, George Kreiss. Married Dora Belle Ford, November 29, 1952 (deceased July 1998).