C. PARDEE COMPANY

C. PARDEE COMPANY. Calvin Pardee was the owner of a company that bought lands in several states for natural resources including timber, oil, and natural gas in various states including Louisiana, West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky.

Calvin Pardee was born on July 17, 1841, to Ariovistus Pardee II (a business tycoon) and Elizabeth (Jacobs) Pardee in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He received his education from various universities including Luzerne Presbyterian Institute in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, West Jersey Collegiate Institute in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, and finally Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1857. Pardee joined the Union Army in the Civil War and resigned on October 30, 1862. He would have fought at the Battle of Antietam but fell ill to typhoid fever the day before the battle. During the next twenty years he worked with his father’s business, A. Pardee and Company, which the elder Pardee had founded in 1840 to mine anthracite coal in northeastern Pennsylvania.

On June 4, 1867, Calvin Pardee married Mary Byrne Day. They had nine children: Estelle, Alice, Calvin, Alfred, Ario, Ellie, Olive, Howard, and Helen. Pardee decided to find his own business in various industries in Hazelton and beyond. The company he formed was called the Pardee Brothers Company and owned the Lattimer mines near Hazelton. When his sons finished schooling, they later joined him in his quest to expand his industry for timber, coal, oil, gas, and other various industries across several states, beginning in Pennsylvania. In 1890 The Pardee Company purchased land in Louisiana for timber, oil, and gas. Oil extraction began on Pardee lands in Louisiana in 1936.

Calvin Pardee died on March 18, 1923, and was buried at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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