Background
Pardee was born on July 17, 1841. He was the son of the industrial tycoon Ario Pardee, Senior In 1851, Pardee, along with one of his brothers, was sent to Wyoming"s Luzerne Presbyterian Institute.
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He was instead sent to the West Jersey Collegiate Institute In 1857, Pardee joined the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and in 1860, he graduated from the institute, where he was in the fraternity Theta Delta Chirurgical Pardee joined his the Glendon Iron Company after he graduated.
Career
He did business in Pennsylvania and several other states. His business was mostly related to coal, land, and natural gas. He worked in the Glendon Iron Company in his youth.
He was later the treasurer of numerous companies in Pennsylvania.
These were mostly electric companies. However, following an argument with the headmaster of the Institute, Pardee was withdrawn from the Institute in 1854.
This company primarily belonged to his father and was based in Easton, Pennsylvania. The Pardee Brothers Company was primarily developed to exploit coal mines near Lattimer.
After Pardee"s sons joined his business, he began to build businesses for coal and land, among other things, in Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Pardee was the treasurer of several companies. These included the Beaver Meadow Electric Railway, the Butler Township Power Company, the Coal Township Electric Company, the Conyngham Township Electric Company, the East Union Township Electric Company, the Fairview Township Electric Company, the Mahanoy Township Electric Company, the Mount Carmel Township Electric Company, the Union Township Power Company, the Wright Township Power Company, the Wilkes-Barre Township Power Company, and the West Mahanoy Township Power Company. He also became an officer of the Hazleton Gas Company in 1879.
Pardee owned several collieries in the Coal Region.
Pardee owned the mines worked by the miners who were massacred in the Lattimer Massacre. However, he was in Germantown at the time.
He returned to Hazleton on September 15, after the massacre. He was eager to restart his mines and was "disgusted" that his superintendents were unable to get his collieries to resume their running.
He was also strongly opposed to increasing his miners" wages shortly before the Lattimer Massacre.
