Pratt, James, Dd

Pratt, James, D.D.

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was rector in Portland, Maine, for several years prior to 1858; then of the Church of the Covenant, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1860, when he took charge of Trinity Church, Chicago, Illinois. About 1864 he left that parish, and in 1866 was residing in New York city; in 1868 he removed to Philadelphia as the financial secretary of the Evangelical Knowledge Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church. During several years he resided in Philadelphia without assuming the duties of the regular pastorate, until 1873, when he became rector of St. Philip's Church. in that city. He died January 17, 1874, aged sixty-five years. See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1875, page 144.