William Moody Pratt

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1817

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1897

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"William Moody Pratt" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010691, (accessed April 24, 2024).

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Lexington, Kentucky, minister. Madison County, New York native. Son of Daniel Pratt and Sarah Rogers Hill Moody Pratt. Married to Julia Ann Maria Peck Pratt in New York on August 22, 1839. Married to Mary Ellis Dillard Pratt in Kentucky in 1846. Father of Laura Pratt, William Dudley Pratt, Mary Baldwin Pratt, Elizabeth Pratt, and Ryland Dillard Pratt. Attended Cazenovia Seminary in New York. Helped found First Baptist Church and Crawfordsville Seminary in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1838. Minister in Fayette County in 1850. Graduate of Madison University Doctor of Divinity program in 1856. Baptist minister in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, District 1, p. 143A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette Lexington, p. 550.Find A Grave, "William M. Pratt (1817-1897)," Memorial #97964352, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97964352 (accessed May 24, 2019).
Aly Caviness, "Biographical Sketch," Finding Aid for Reverend William M. Pratt Diary Extracts, William Henry Smith Memorial Library at the Indiana Historical Society, 2017. (accessed May 24, 2019).

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