Hazen Curtis PRATT, Sr

1896 - 1958  (62 years)

• Name	Hazen Curtis PRATT
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	9 Mar 1896	Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1958-MN-023652
  Occupation	Mechanical engineer
  Death	24 Jun 1958	Hennepin County, Minnesota
  Burial	Forest Hill Cemetery, Anoka, Anoka County, Minnesota
  Notes	Called William Hazen Pratt in one family tree. His Social Security number, 476-07-3697, was issued in Minnesota. Last benefit and last residence were “not specified.” In the 1910 census, he lived in New Trier, Cook County, Illinois. He attended Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He registered for the draft as Hazen Curtis Pratt on May 31, 1917, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he was a student. He was single. He claimed to have had previous military service with a “Naval Marine Force.” He was tall and of medium build with blue-grey eyes and brown hair. He enlisted as a Seaman, 2nd Class, in the Naval Reserve and was commissioned as an Ensign on March 9, 1918. He was a junior officer in the Naval Reserve, and later in the U.S. Marine Corps, from at least June of 1918 through the end of the war. (He was made Lt. J.G. on August 27, 1918.) He was stationed at Miami with the Marine Aviation Detachment. According to his gravestone, he was a 2nd Lieutenant with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves during World War I. His 1922 thesis for his B.S. at MIT was entitled “The design of pneumatic cylinder brake for an aircraft arresting gear.” He and his wife Jean arrived in New York on June 8, 1925, aboard the S.S. Fort Victoria which had sailed from Bermuda two days earlier. At that time, the couple lived in Rochester, New York, at 189 Lake Avenue. (This may have been their honeymoon.) In the 1930 census, he and his family lived in Rochester, New York, at 233 Sherbourne Road. He was a mechanical engineer for the Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research. They owned their house, worth $20,000, and they had an Irish woman, age 20, as a servant. The California Passenger Lists show Hazen, Jean, Hugh, and Elizabeth arriving in San Francisco aboard the S.S. President Polk on 17 Jul 1934. The ship had sailed from New York on June 28th. The family lived in Rochester, New York, on 233 San Gabriel Drive. According to Millie Pratt Giddings’s obit, “Hazen Curtis Pratt {was} a founding member of the former Nob Hill Ski Club in Minneapolis. Hazen was a talented engineer trained at MIT, and the principal original designer of the Hoffman electrical enclosures still manufactured in Anoka.”
  Person ID	I848	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2014

  
  

  Father	William Henry PRATT,   b. 23 Nov 1852, Vermont
  Mother	Elizabeth D (Bessie) DEVIN,   b. 5 Aug 1860, Knox County, Ohio
  Family ID	F4946	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jean MCLEAN,   b. 28 Jul 1900, Buffalo, Erie County, New York d. 19 Feb 1979, Rochester, Monroe County, New York (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1925
  Divorce	1939	Manatee County, Florida
  Children	1. Hugh McLean PRATT,   b. 28 May 1926, Rochester, Monroe County, New York d. 1 Jul 2013, New Hampshire (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F6621	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2012

  
  

  Family 2	Mildred Stella HENDRICKSON,   b. 9 Oct 1910, Hennepin County, Minnesota d. 12 Mar 2010, Ramsey County, Minnesota (Age 99 years)
  Marriage	9 Aug 1941	Hennepin County, Minnesota
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  Family ID	F368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2010