Brief Life History of Lewis Theophilus
When Lewis Theophilus Pratt was born on 25 July 1832, in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ora Pratt, was 31 and his mother, Julia Harding, was 25. He married Henrietta Curtis Billings on 15 June 1862, in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. He died on 14 March 1894, in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 61.
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- Lewis Pratt, "United States Census, 1880"
- Lewis Theophilis Pratt, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Lewis T. Pratt, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Middle English prat(te), pret ‘cunning, wily, astute’ (a derivative of Old English præt, pret ‘trickery, deception’, which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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