Identifier: contemporaryamer03newy (find matches)
Title: Contemporary American biography
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York, Atlantic publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the business, and being now and for many years past a prominent andactive member of the State Board of Charities. The business of this firm grew up from a smallbeginning, and now has a very prominent standing in the saddlery hardware trade as manu-facturers and merchants, its trade extending at this time to every State and Territory in theUnion, and giving constant employment to several hundred men. From the foregoing it willbe seen that Mr. Pratt deserves high rank among his fellow-citizens. His enterprise and activ-ity have been of eminent service in developing the industries of that thriving city; and hisexample, both as a business man and a private citizen, has been a standing incentive to honor-able endeavor and a pure and useful life. Mr. Pratt is of the blonde type, is five feet eightand one-half inches in height, with hair turning gray, eyes of a light blue, with a tempera-ment that is constantly pushing him forward, and allows no idling on his part in the journeythrough life.
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DEAI 1ICHMOHI). CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 323 DEAN RICHMOND. Dean Richmond, conspicuous during nearly half a century as a political manager, capital-ist and business man, and largely identified with the railway system of New York and theWestern States, was born in Barnard, Vt., on the 31st of March, 1804. By some genealogicalauthorities he is said to have been descended from Oliver Cromwell, to whose portraits it iscertain he bore a strong resemblance. His maternal grandfather, a sturdy New Englander,after whom he was named, was a man of uncommon mental endowments, strong judgment andunbending integrity. His physique was remarkable. Of almost gigantic stature, he assumed,by right as it were, a commanding place among his fellow-men, which his clear, sagacious, andpenetrating intellect easily enabled him to maintain. A Democrat of the Jeffersonian school,he exercised a marked influence upon the politics of his section, although he never cared to holdoffice. Upon the character of

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