20 Facts About Calvin Pardee

Calvin Pardee was a businessman from Pennsylvania.

Calvin Pardee attended the Luzerne Presbyterian Institute and later the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Calvin Pardee did business in Pennsylvania and several other states.

Calvin Pardee's business was mostly related to coal, land, and natural gas.

Calvin Pardee worked in the Glendon Iron Company in his youth.

Calvin Pardee was later the treasurer of numerous companies in Pennsylvania.

Calvin Pardee was the son of the industrial tycoon Ario Pardee.

However, following an argument with the headmaster of the Institute, Calvin Pardee was withdrawn from the Institute in 1854.

Calvin Pardee was instead sent to the West Jersey Collegiate Institute.

In 1857, Calvin Pardee joined the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and in 1860, he graduated from the institute, where he was in the fraternity Theta Delta Chi.

Calvin Pardee was the founder of the Pardee Brothers Company, which was his most significant source of wealth.

Calvin Pardee became an officer of the Hazleton Gas Company in 1879.

Calvin Pardee owned the mines worked by the miners who were massacred in the Lattimer massacre.

Calvin Pardee was eager to restart his mines and was "disgusted" that his superintendents were unable to get his collieries to resume their running.

Calvin Pardee was strongly opposed to increasing his miners' wages shortly before the Lattimer Massacre.

Calvin Pardee participated in the Battle of Antietam and several minor battles.

Calvin Pardee retired on October 30,1862 after getting typhoid fever.

Calvin Pardee funded the construction of the Pardee Dormitory at Rensselaer.

Calvin Pardee bought a summer farm in Whitemarsh in 1889.

Calvin Pardee regularly hosted family members at his summer home.