Pratt, H. C. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 861, Pleasant Township
H. C. Pratt, farmer and stock dealer, sec. 16; P. O., Ipava; born in Brown county, O., May 1, 1844; came to this State in 1850, and to this county in 1858 and settled where he now resides; enlisted in Co. B, 84th Ill. Inf. Vol., in 1862, and served 2 years and 10 months; was in the battle of Perryville and several other hard-fought battles; married Laura A. Hannah in 1866, who was born in Kentucky in 1848: they have 4 children, - Charles E., Lanson, James and Frank.