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 PAPE

PARDEE

Medical congi'ess. He received from Haverford the honorary degree of A.M., 1876. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1897.

PAPE, Eric, artist, was born in San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 17, 1870 ; son of Friederich Ludwig Moritz and Maria (Meier) Pape, born in Zeven, Province of Hanover, Germany. His father came to California and Idaho in the early fifties, engaged in mining and prospecting, and was married in San Francisco, 1868, to Maria Meier, also a native of Zeven, Hanover, Germany. Eric Pape was educated at the San Francisco School of Design, under Boulanger, Lefebvre'and others in Paris, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Gerome. He traveled in Egypt, 1891-93, and subsequently through remote sections of Mexico, giving much time and study to the antiquities of those two countries. He opened a studio in New York city in 1893, where he illustrated "The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," "The Building of the Mahomedan Empire," Life of Mahomet" and "The Incas of Peru" and exe- cuted portraits of "Famous Men and Women" for the Century magazine, 1893-95. He was married, Aug. 16, 1894, in Dublin, N.H., to Alice, daughter of Lewis Baxter, and Adeline Frances (Osgood) Monroe. He removed to Boston in 1897, teaching during that year at the Cowles Art school, and founded the Eric Pape school of Art in 1898, of which he became the director. He illustrated "The Fair God" by Gen. Lew Wallace, 1898-99, and "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1901. He exhibited twenty- one pictures and one gold bas-relief at the Salon Champ de Mars, 1890-1900; and several pictures at other exhibitions, including : Exposition du Cavie, Egypte, 1892 ; World's Columbian exposi- tion, Chicago, 1893 ; Munich Kunst Anstellung, 1897 ; Paris exposition, 1900, and Pan-American exposition, Buffalo, 1901. His most important paintings are : Tlie Spinner of Zeven (1889); The Great Sphinx by Moonlight (1891); TJie Two Great Eras (1892) ; The Angel with the Book of Life (1897); Approaching Storm, The Great Dune and Early Morning (1900), and Foam Surges (1902). He- received medals at five exhi- bitions.

PARDEE, Ariovistus, philanthropist, was born in Chatham, N.Y., Nov. 19, 1810; son of Ariovistus and Eliza (Piatt) Pardee ; grandson of Dr. Calvin Pardee, who served in the Continental army as a surgeon, and of Capt. Israel Piatt, who served in the New York line, and married Abigal Scudder ; and a descendant of George Pardee, of Huguenot descent, who settled in New Haven, Conn., in 1644, and of Martha Miles his wife. Ariovistus Pardee, Jr., was brought up on a farm, attended the district school, and was a employed as rodman and assistant engineer on the

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Delaware and Raritan canal in New Jersey, 1880- 33. He was chief engineer in the survey of the Beaver Meadow rail- road, Pennsylvania, 1833-37, and builder and superintendent of the Hazelton railroad, 1837-40. He founded the city of Hazelton, Pa., in 1836; settled there in 1840, bought anthracite coal prop- erties in the Jed do district, and in a few years became the largest shipper of anthracite coal in the state. He also engaged with Asa

Packer in the development of coal mines, manufactures and railroads in the Lehigh Valley. He built a gravity railroad to Penn Haven in 1848, as an outlet to the product of the mines, which was abandoned in 1860 for the improved facilities of the Lehigh Valley railroad. He became interested in iron manu- factures, and acquired control of the blast furnaces in Stanhope, N.J., and subsequently of others in New York, Virginia and Tennessee. He purchased a tract of forest land in Canada, as large as the state of Rhode Island, and another tract in North Carolina. He was president of the Secaucus and the Musconetcong iron Works in New Jersey ; the Allentown Rolling Mills, and the Union Iron Works of Buffalo, N.Y., and a director of the Lehigh Valley, and other railroads. He fitted out at his own expense a company of U.S. volunteers commanded by his eldest son Ario Pardee, who attained the brevet rank of brigadier-general, Jan. 12, 1865. Through the influence of William C. Cattell, president of Lafayette college, he contributed in 1864 the sum of $20,000, which prevented the college from closing its doors for want of funds. He endowed the professorship of mathematics in 1864, and the Pardee scientific department in 1866. This was followed by further donations amounting in 1869 to $200,000. He afterward gave $250,000 for Pardee Hall, the corner stone of which he laid in 1873, and for the scientific equipment of which he gave $50,000 in all. The building was destroyed by fii-e in 1879, when it was rebuilt. He was president of the board of trustees of Lafayette college, 1882-92 ; president of the state board controlling the second geological survey of Pennsylvania, and a presidential elector in 1876. His benefactions extended to various charitable organizations of which he was an officer. He was married, first, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ellen Jacobs of