Harry Ruthven Pratt (1852-1924)
H. Ruthven Pratt, of New York and the American Colony in France
He was born at Mobile, Alabama. He was graduated in law (1878) from Columbia College in New York and subsequently became a lawyer and the first Persian Consul-General at New York. He was heir to his father's $8-million fortune and in 1884 married Florence Matthews, an illegitimate daughter and co-heiress of Isaac Singer. They lived at 21 West 39th Street in Manhattan and kept Arleigh in Newport. From the mid-90's they lived in France as prominent members of the American Colony. They died without children.
