PRATT, ORSON (18111881)

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PRATT, ORSON (18111881) , Mormon apostle, was born of humble parents at Hartford, New

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. In 183o he joined the Mormon Church, becoming a member of its council of twelve in 1834 and one of its twelve apostles in 1835.

Pratt

PRATT, ORSON (1811–1881)

was also a mathematician of some note. He was professor of mathematics in the university of Deseret and wrote several books on this subject, these including Cubic and Biquadratic Equations (1866). He was a member, and several times

speaker

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, of the Utah

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Gothic
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of Representatives. Among his writings may be mentioned Key to the Universe (1866), and The Bible and

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(187o).

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