Harold Ensign Bennet Pardee

Biography Pardee was born on December 11, 1886, to Ensign Bennet Pardee, a physician. He was a grandnephew of Charles Inslee Pardee, former dean of the New York Medical College, and a direct descendant of William Brewster and William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. He was also a fellow of the American Medical Association. daughter of Henry Hobart Porter, former president of American Water Works. She was a niece of Seton Porter, founder and chairman of National Distillers. Porter served as a nurse at the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly, France, and at a French hospital in Cogny, France, in 1916-17.

Pardee died on February 28, 1973, at his 770 Park Avenue apartment at age 86.