Herbert L. Pratt

Herbert Lee Pratt was an American businessman and a leading figure in the United States oil industry from 1923 he was head of Standard Oil his father Charles Pratt was a founder of Astral Oil Works which later became part of Standard Oil. He lived and worked in New York City, as well as having a country estate, The Braes, in Glen Cove, Long Island, and a hunting preserve and estate, Good Hope Plantation in Ridgeland, South Carolina. He was an art collector and philanthropist.

Pratt was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1871, the fourth of six children of Mary Helen , his fathers second wife, and Charles Pratt, the Standard Oil industrialist. He was brother to Frederic B. Pratt, George Dupont Pratt, Helen Pratt, John Teele Pratt and Harold I. Pratt. Their older halfsiblings were Charles Millard Pratt and Lydia Richardson Pratt.

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