George Clinton Pratt (November 1811 – January 1, 1895) was an American farmer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
[1] Returning to Vermont, Pratt planned to permanently move to Wisconsin, but was delayed after he was appointed to a three-year term as deputy sheriff.
He joined his brother in the village of Milwaukee, and soon accompanied him to Waukesha (then called "Prairieville"), where they had previously purchased several hundred acres.
[1] Beginning shortly after the establishment of Waukesha County, Pratt and his brother held a long string of local offices.
[5] In 1866, Pratt was one of the founders of the Waukesha County Manufacturing Company, which produced woolen goods at a factory that ran on water power.
The same year he was a co-founder of the North Prairie Petroleum Company—an unsuccessful attempt to drill for oil in the area of Genesee, Wisconsin.