Irving Hotchkiss Pardee (January 26, 1892 – April 10, 1949) was an American neurologist.
Biography
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.
Pardee received his A.B. from
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in 1912 and M.D. from the
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
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in 1915. He interned at the
St. Luke's Hospital, then the
Neurological Institute of New York.
During
World War I, Pardee entered the
United States Medical Corps as a first lieutenant. Upon returning to the
United States, Pardee carried out research in
neurology and
endocrinology and served in thee endocrine clinic at the Neurological Institute for a number of years and served as chief of clinic.
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.
He was also president of the New York Neurological Society.
Pardee later became professor of neurology and executive officer of the department of neurology at
Columbia University.
Personal life
Pardee married Margaret E. Trevor, daughter of sportsman Henry Graff Trevor, a founder the
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
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. She was also a granddaughter of businessman
John Bond Trevor,
a great-granddaughter of Congressman
Isaac C. Delaplaine
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Biography
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, as well as niece of
John B. Trevor Sr. and grand-niece of
Lispenard Stewart
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Early life
Stewart was born on June 19, 1855, in Hudson, New York. He was the son of Lispenard Stewart (1809–1867 ...
. The couple had three children before divorcing.
One of his daughters was Peggy Bates, a
Monterey, California
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-based philanthropist who was married to Dr. Talcott Bates, a grandson of
James Talcott and descendant of
John Talcott and
Thomas Hooker, founder of the
Connecticut Colony
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.
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
1892 births
1949 deaths
American neurologists
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
Rockefeller family
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Columbia University faculty