Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

S. S. PRATT, furniture, etc., Plainfield; is a native of Vermont; he was born at Bennington, 
Feb. 28, 1814. He married Miss Esther A. BECKWITH Nov. 27, 1839; she was born in Norfolk, N. Y., 
Aug. 12, 1822; they had four children, three living, viz., Laura, Clara and Norman. He lived in 
Vermont about nine-teen years, when he moved to New York; remaining until spring of 1834, when 
he came to Chicago and engaged in the furniture business, remaining eighteen months; in the 
fall of 1835 he came to Plainfield and engaged in same business, and has been identified with 
the business since, except ten years he engaged in farming; he was also interested in the 
furniture business in Joliet during the building of the canal; he has been a member of the 
Congregational Church for the past thirty years, and has taken an active part in its affairs. 
All his children are married and living in this village.