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Daniel Pratt property, bearded man may be Daniel Pratt and Merrill Pratt is second from left
No full textThis is a view of the Daniel Pratt property in Prattville, Alabama. The bearded man may be Daniel Pratt, and the second from left is Merrill Pratt in the 1880s
Daniel Pratt home on Autauga Creek in Prattville, Alabama.
No full text"Daniel Pratt wanted to give his wife more than the Alabama wilderness. This white-pillared mansion did it.
Daniel Pratt of Prattville: A Northern Industrialist and a Southern Town.
Get PDFThis dissertation explores the life of Daniel Pratt, one of the South\u27s most important industrialists. Daniel Pratt was born in Temple, New Hampshire on July 20, 1799. In 1821, he migrated to Jones County, Georgia, where he worked as a carpenter-architect for ten years. He married Esther Ticknor of Connecticut in 1827 Samuel Griswold hired Pratt in 1831 to superintend his cotton gin factory in Jones County. Two years later, Pratt migrated to Autauga County in central Alabama, where he started his own gin shop. In 1839, Pratt founded Prattville, located fourteen miles from Alabama\u27s capital, Montgomery. The next year, he formed Daniel Pratt and Company, which manufactured several hundred gins annually. Pratt\u27s gins won favorable attention from prominent southern periodicals like De Bow\u27s Review. By 1860, Pratt\u27s company was the largest cotton gin manufacturer in the world. Pratt started a cotton mill in 1846. Although several planters invested in Prattville Manufacturing Company (PMC), Pratt dominated the business. PMC became one of the South\u27s most successful and celebrated textile factories. It relied primarily on the labor of poor white families, but it did employ some slaves. To mold his white employees into an effective work force, Pratt inaugurated a vigorous uplift program, which emphasized temperance, education, and church and Sunday school attendance. This program was generally successful. Prattville, the site of Daniel Pratt\u27s factories, became a significant town with numerous stores and shops, including a sash, door and blind shop and a carriage and wagon shop, as well as churches, schools, and voluntary associations. Included among the latter were a Bible society, a temperance society, a singing society, a fire engine company, a band, and a lyceum. In addition to having a successful business career, Pratt was involved in Alabama politics from 1847 to his death in 1873. In 1860, he was elected to Alabama\u27s House of Representatives, and ten years later, he became a strong--though ultimately unsuccessful--contender for Alabama\u27s governorship. Pratt vigorously advocated southern industrialization and economic diversification. His pronouncements fell on a mostly receptive audience. When he died, newspapers eulogized him as one of Alabama\u27s greatest men
Letter from Daniel Pratt Hale, Birmingham, Alabama, to J. H. Woodward, Birmingham, Alabama, September 3, 1913
No full textA document from an extensive collection spanning four generations of the Woodward family that operated merchant pig iron companies in West Virginia and Alabama. The collection begins with Stimpson Harvey Woodward (S. H. Woodward), a native of Massachusetts, who moved from Pittsburgh to Wheeling, West Virginia in 1852. He had interests in an iron company as early as 1852 in West Virginia and began Alabama operations in 1869. The family business continued in Alabama until the death of S. H. Woodward's great-grandson in 1965
Invoice from Daniel Pratt Gin Company, Prattville, Alabama, to Gaius Whitfield, October 7, 1880
No full textFormal portrait of Daniel Pratt, great nephew of Daniel Pratt, founder of the Daniel Pratt Gin Company. This Daniel Pratt was the last President of Daniel Pratt Gin Company, prior to merger to form Continental Gin Company in 1899 & was one of the founders of Continental Gin Company.
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Letter from Daniel Pratt Gin Company, Prattville, Alabama, to Gaius Whitfield, Jr., Demopolis, Alabama, February 17, 1880
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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