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A pile of goods outside the Cooper & Levy store in Seattle during the Klondike Gold Rush includes a container of Pratts Astral Oil, right of center.

Charles Pratt and Company was an oil company that was formed in 1867 by Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers in Brooklyn, New York. It became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil organization in 1874.

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Charles Pratt and Company

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Charles Pratt and Company was an oil company that was formed in 1867 by Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers in Brooklyn, New York. It became part of John...

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Charles Pratt

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Charles Pratt (October 2, 1830 – May 4, 1891) was an American businessman. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene...

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Charles Millard Pratt

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industrialist Charles Pratt, in 1875 he began working at Charles Pratt and Company, soon becoming president. He was a director of the Standard Oil Company and later...

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Pratt Institute

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oil. In 1867, Pratt established Charles Pratt and Company. In 1874, Pratt's companies amalgamated with John D. Rockefeller's companies. They became part...

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Astral Oil Works

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and noted for being relatively safe. It was founded by Charles Pratt. Charles Pratt and Company (including Astral Oil) became part of John D. Rockefeller’s...

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South Improvement Company

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Charles Pratt and Company refining interests of Brooklyn, New York, which came close to physical warfare in western Pennsylvania in March 1872 (and came...

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Henry Huttleston Rogers

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Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad Company was incorporated in West Virginia in 1898 by either a son of Charles Pratt or the estate of Charles Pratt. Its line...

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Charles Stuart Pratt

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Charles Stuart Pratt (1854–1921), who sometimes wrote under the pen names of C. P. Stewart and C. P. Stuart, was an American writer of children's literature...

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Henry Flagler

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boycotts and vandalism, which eventually led to the discovery of Standard Oil's part in the deal. A major New York refiner, Charles Pratt and Company, headed...

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History of the petroleum industry in the United States

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He joined with his protégé Henry H. Rogers to form Charles Pratt and Company in 1867. Both companies became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil...

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Pratt

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Pratt (1828–1896), Union Army officer Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1713–1794), British lawyer Charles Pratt (1830–1891), American businessman and philanthropist...

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Richardson Pratt Jr

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from 1972 to 1990, and chairman of Charles Pratt & Company. Richardson Pratt Jr was born on March 25, 1923, and grew up in Brooklyn and Glen Cove, New York...

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Kanawha and Pocahontas Railroad

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mining territory on land which was owned and/or leased by Gallego Coal & Land Company, Charles Pratt and Company, and other investors based in New York City...

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Abraham Pineo Gesner

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the company replaced Gesner with Luther Atwood as chief chemist. The Newton Creek plant eventually passed into the hands of Charles Pratt and Company, a...

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RTX Corporation

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Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon (formerly Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense). The Raytheon Company was founded in...

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Wamsutta Oil Refinery

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Charles Pratt joined with his protégé Rogers to form Charles Pratt and Company. Pratt's companies (and he and Rogers) became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard...

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Charles Pratt Huntington

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Charles Pratt Huntington (1871–1919) was an American architect, born in Logansport, Indiana and educated at Harvard University, from which he graduated...

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Timeline of Brooklyn

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the victorious Union Army and its subsequent veterans organization, the Grand Army of the Republic. Charles Pratt and Company formed. Prospect Park, a...

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Millers Falls Company

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as Gunn & Amidon by Levi J. Gunn and Charles H. Amidon. Gunn and Amidon, along with a third partner, Henry L. Pratt built a factory in the north of Greenfield...

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Pratt Historic District

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buildings dated as early as the 1820s. Notable buildings include the Charles Pratt Mining Company office (c. 1889), I.O.O.F. Building (c. 1922-1923), Samuel Hanna...

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Jane Pratt

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York, and her maternal grandfather, Joseph Marks, was a vice-president of the Doubleday publishing company. Her paternal grandfather was Gaither Pratt, a...

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