Butte County
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ORVILLE C. PRATT, JR.
ORVILLE C. PRATT, JR.--Orville C. Pratt, Jr., is the only son and child of the late Judge O. C. Pratt, and Elizabeth Eugenia (Greene) Pratt, of New York. He was born in San Francisco, December 19, 1882, and had reached the age of nine at the time of his father’s death. Mr. Pratt attended the Episcopal Academy and other schools in Philadelphia, and the Urban School at San Francisco. He entered the University of California in 1898, took the classical course and received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1902. He then went to England and entered Lincoln College, Oxford, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Civil Law from the University in 1904. He later took a special two years’ course at the Harvard Law School, after which he returned to his native city and began the practice of his profession. The following year he was admitted to the bar of California, and later to practice in the Federal courts. His office in San Francisco is located at 250 Montgomery Street.
Mr. Pratt married Miss Emily J. Wilson, the daughter of Russell J. Wilson, a well known attorney of San Francisco, and they have two sons: Russell W. Pratt, and Orville C. Pratt, IV. The family spends the greater part of the year at the home near Durham, Butte County. This residence is situated on a ranch of forty-six hundred acres, part of that originally owned by the late Judge Pratt. An oak grove of great natural beauty surrounds the dwelling. Mr. Pratt devotes his personal attention to the management of the ranch, of which about seventeen hundred acres are annually in grain, and the balance in hay, pasture and summer fallow; the whole being operated according to the approved methods of agriculture. The breeding of Percheron horses, Holstein cows, and Poland China hogs, also receives considerable attention. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have a winter residence at 1818 California Street, in San Francisco.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1224, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Joyce Rugeroni.
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