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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 refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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.
Charles Millard Pratt (November 2, 1855 – November 27, 1935) was an American oil industrialist, educator, and philanthropist. As the eldest son of industrialist Charles Pratt, in 1875 he began working at Charles Pratt and Company, soon becoming president.
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Oct 17, 2011 · Charles Pratt made his fortune in petroleum oil in the second half of the 19th century, establishing the Astral Oil company in Brooklyn's Greenpoint industrial corridor. The oil works occupied a patch of land on the East River, bounded on the south by North 12th Street and the east by Kent Avenue (known until 1885 as 1st Avenue).
Feb 10, 2014 · Feb 10, 2014. The Howard Greenberg Gallery is currently holding an exhibition featuring the work of Charles Pratt, Jr. (1926-1976), whose great-grandfather Charles Pratt founded the Institute, and former Pratt professors Arthur Freed (b. 1936) and David Vestal (1924-2013).
Charles Pratt believed deeply in the transformative impact of education, and so set off on a bold mission: to provide an affordable college education to all students regardless of class, color, or gender.
The Charles Millard Pratt papers consist primarily of correspondence between family members, such as his father, Charles Pratt (founder of Pratt Institute), and his brother, Frederic Bayley Pratt, both of whom were also his collegues at Charles Pratt & Co. and Pratt Institute.
