Pratt, L. 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
L. Pratt, retired farmer, Ipava, was born in Vermont April 27, 1798; had a fair education; taught school about 25 terms of 6 months each; came to Illinois in 1854; in 1824 married Sarah McMoinz; they had 11 children, 8 of whom are living, in 1859 he married Minerva Potter, who was born in New York in 1811.