Tratt, Robert 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 862, Pleasant Township
Robert Tratt, of Pavey & Tratt, dealers in hardware, Ipava. Mr. T. was born in England in May, 1836, and crossed the Atlantic for America in 1851, and first stopped in New York, where he remained till 1857, and in 1863 located in Ipava and engaged in the hardware trade, and at present carries $6,000 worth of stock. May 16, ’66, he was married to Carrie E. Stafford, who is a native of England, having been born in that country in 1846. There have been 2 children born to them, John W., deceased, and Freddie. Mr. T. has been President of the Town Board and held other local offices.