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3 unusual facts about Ario Pardee


Ario Pardee, Jr.

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

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

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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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