Irving H. Pardee

Pardee came from a long line of physicians. He was born to Dr. Ensign Bennet Pardee on January 26, 1892, and his brother was the cardiologist Harold E. B. Pardee. His granduncle Charles Inslee Pardee was dean of the New York Medical College. He was also a descendant of William Brewster and William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. He interned at the St. Luke's Hospital, then the Neurological Institute of New York. He was also attending neurologist at St. Luke's and secretary of the hospital's medical board. He helped found the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, of which he was vice president, and was also a member and vice president of the American Neurological Association in 1942. == Personal life ==

Pardee married Margaret E. Trevor, daughter of sportsman Henry Graff Trevor, a founder the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. She was also a granddaughter of businessman John Bond Trevor, as well as niece of John B. Trevor Sr. and grand-niece of Lispenard Stewart. The couple had three children before divorcing. Pardee then married Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and granddaughter of the John D. Rockefeller, in 1946. They remained married until his death of leukemia on April 10, 1949. He was a member of the Union Club of the City of New York and the Piping Rock Club. == References ==