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unusual facts about Ario Pardee, Jr.



Ario Pardee, Jr.

He was buried in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

During that latter campaign, XX Corps became part of Maj. Gen. Henry Warner Slocum’s Army of Georgia.

Pardee criticized Geary's actions in that campaign, especially his abandoning Thoroughfare Gap in the face of a Confederate advance.

East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad

The initial 14.1-mile (2.25-kilometer) run through the Appalachian Mountains from Johnson City to Hampton, Tennessee via Elizabethton was completed on August 22, 1881 by Pennsylvania-based financier Ario Pardee, and the technical expertise of Thomas Matson (the noted railway engineer); a line extension to Cranberry opened on July 3, 1882.


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