Charles Pratt, a pioneer of the U.S.…

1866 CE

Charles Pratt, a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, had established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York, then lived with his growing family in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood.

An advertising slogan is "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil."

Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, Pratt was one of eleven children.

His father, Asa Pratt, was a carpenter.

Of modest means, he had spent three winters as a student at Wesleyan Academy, and is said to have lived on a dollar a week at times.

In nearby Boston, Massachusetts, Pratt had joined a company specializing in paints and whale oil products.

In 1850 or 1851, he had come to New York City, where he worked for a similar company handling paint and oil.

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