McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Pratt, Almon Bradley

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Pratt, Almon Bradley


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a Congregational minister, was born in North Cornwall, Conn., June 3, 1812, received his preparatory training at South Cornwall, Conn., and then entered Yale College. He was not however, able to complete his collegiate studies, as his health failed him. From 1839 to 1841 he was at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. April 13. 1852, he was ordained as evangelist at Genesee, Mich., and acted in that place as pastor until 1865, when he removed to Flint, Mich. In 1868 he was called again to the work, and accepted the pastorate at Berea, Ohio. In 1873 he was made acting pastor at Camp Creek, Nebraska, and there he died, Dec. 28, 1875. See The Congreg. Quar. July, 1876, p. 432.