Philanthropist, Music Impresario, Financier, Corporate Lawyer and the largest single stockholder in Standard Oil of New York, which his father, Charles Pratt, the Standard Oil Industrialist, was a director of and also an oil industry pioneer. John Teele Pratt graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law and worked at the prestigious firm of Carter and Ledyard at 54 Wall Street in New York. He married Ruth Sears Baker, the first woman elected to Congress from the state of New York. He died suddenly in his Wall Street office at age 53, of heart disease. Thirty-six years earlier his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address. His home in Glen Cove, "The Manor" was considered by Country Life Magazine to be one of the best twelve country houses in America. It is now the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center. He was the father of 5 children.
Philanthropist, Music Impresario, Financier, Corporate Lawyer and the largest single stockholder in Standard Oil of New York, which his father, Charles Pratt, the Standard Oil Industrialist, was a director of and also an oil industry pioneer. John Teele Pratt graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law and worked at the prestigious firm of Carter and Ledyard at 54 Wall Street in New York. He married Ruth Sears Baker, the first woman elected to Congress from the state of New York. He died suddenly in his Wall Street office at age 53, of heart disease. Thirty-six years earlier his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address. His home in Glen Cove, "The Manor" was considered by Country Life Magazine to be one of the best twelve country houses in America. It is now the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center. He was the father of 5 children.
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