Pratt family descendant co-founded Marineland in Florida
Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute recently made news when a new home for its film and video department was launched in the former Prattstore building at 550 Myrtle Ave. Pratt Institute has a distinguished place in Brooklyn history and is rated among the top 25 percent of American colleges by the Princeton Review.
Many people nowadays may not know much about Sherman Pratt, grandson of Brooklyn industrialist Charles Pratt, who founded Pratt Institute back in 1887. Sherman was born in Brooklyn in 1900, the second son of George Dupont Pratt.