Otis A. Pray papers, 1850-1964.

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Otis A. Pray papers, 1850-1964.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313843491

Diaries, correspondence and miscellaneous papers, visual material, scrapbook (1882-1908), land patents, patents for invention, account, memorandum, and time books, stock certificates, and related papers for this Maine millwright who came to Minnesota in 1857 and built flour mills in Afton, Minneapolis, and St. Cloud, Minnesota.

1.25 cu. ft. (2 boxes, including 12 volumes).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7315236

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Fargusson J.

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Pray, Otis Arkwright, 1833-1890.

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Otis Arkwright Pray was born on February 28, 1833, in Livermore, Maine, son of Otis and Eliza Allen (Weeks) Pray. He was apprenticed to Daniel Beebe, a millwright at Lewiston, Maine. He later formed a partnership with Beebe, working for three years in Maine before coming to Minnesota in 1857. In 1858 he began work for W. D. Washburn on the Minneapolis Mill Company. Pray became a prominent mill builder in the Northwest and also developed the middlings purifier and other mill machiner...

Smith, George, active 1841-1849

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Pray family.

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