General Ario Pardee, Jr., eldest son of the late Ario Pardee, died on Mar. 16 at his residence in Chelten Hills, after a long illness.

General Pardee was born at Hazelton, Pa., Oct. 28, 1839 and in 1858 graduated as a civil engineer at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. Soon after graduating he took charge of the mines of A. Pardee & Company. On his 21st birthday he was married to Mary F. Allison, and the next year his father, having fitted out a military company, he was elected captain of it--Company A, Twenty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. Afterwards he became colonel of the One Hundred and Forty-seventh regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and at Gettysburg was in charge of the brigade. At Peach Tree creek he was made brevet brigadier-general being in the same division with former President Harrison. Colonel Pardee was brigade commander on Sherman's march to the sea. His promotion as brevet brigadier-general was for "special gallantry and noble conduct.

Returning from the war General Pardee entered into part[ner]ship with his father, the late J. Gillingham Fell, the late M.M. Cooper, of Hazelton, and Calvin Pardee, of Philadelphia, and for 30 years was engaged in coal mining operations. In 1875 he moved to Philadelphia and afterwards to Chelten Hills.

General Pardee was once president of the Allentown rolling mills, and also of the Cranberry Iron and Coal company. At the time of his death he was a director of the North Penn railroad, the Cranberry Iron and Coal company and the East Tennessee and North Carolina railroad. He was a member of the Lovel legion.

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