Married Martha A. Ashworth on November 27, 1845, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Worked in real estate for several railway companies in order to get settlers onto railroad land in Kansas and Colorado.
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HISTORY OF CHICAGO
A.T. ANDREAS
1886
Mr. Pratt engaged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and, under instructions went to Boston and organized a colony, locating it in Western Kansas, on the line of the road, naming the settlement Kinsley, after Colonel E.W. Kinsley, of Boston, who raised for the colony $8,000, with which to erect public buildings. Although this town has been twice devastated by fire, it is still one of the most thriving villages on the line of the road...
Worked in real estate for several railway companies in order to get settlers onto railroad land in Kansas and Colorado.
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HISTORY OF CHICAGO
A.T. ANDREAS
1886
Mr. Pratt engaged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and, under instructions went to Boston and organized a colony, locating it in Western Kansas, on the line of the road, naming the settlement Kinsley, after Colonel E.W. Kinsley, of Boston, who raised for the colony $8,000, with which to erect public buildings. Although this town has been twice devastated by fire, it is still one of the most thriving villages on the line of the road...
Married Martha A. Ashworth on November 27, 1845, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Worked in real estate for several railway companies in order to get settlers onto railroad land in Kansas and Colorado.
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HISTORY OF CHICAGO
A.T. ANDREAS
1886
Mr. Pratt engaged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and, under instructions went to Boston and organized a colony, locating it in Western Kansas, on the line of the road, naming the settlement Kinsley, after Colonel E.W. Kinsley, of Boston, who raised for the colony $8,000, with which to erect public buildings. Although this town has been twice devastated by fire, it is still one of the most thriving villages on the line of the road...
Worked in real estate for several railway companies in order to get settlers onto railroad land in Kansas and Colorado.
___
HISTORY OF CHICAGO
A.T. ANDREAS
1886
Mr. Pratt engaged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and, under instructions went to Boston and organized a colony, locating it in Western Kansas, on the line of the road, naming the settlement Kinsley, after Colonel E.W. Kinsley, of Boston, who raised for the colony $8,000, with which to erect public buildings. Although this town has been twice devastated by fire, it is still one of the most thriving villages on the line of the road...
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