Background
Pratt was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 December 1873, the son of Standard Oil industrialist Charles Pratt and Mary Helen Richardson.
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John Pratt
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Education
After graduating from Amherst College in 1896, he studied at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1900.
Career
He worked as a lawyer for the prestigious firm of Carter and Ledyard at 54 Wall Street in New York. Pratt died suddenly in his Broadway office on June 17, 1927, aged 53, of heart disease. Thirty six years earlier, his father, Charles Pratt, had died of heart disease in offices at the same address.
In 1913, it was considered by Country Life Magazine to be one of the best twelve country houses in America. It is now the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center. The John Teele Pratt residence on East 61st St, New York City, also designed by Platt about 1915, still exists.
