A.R. Pardington

Arthur Rayner Pardington was the chief engineer and 2nd Vice President of The Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc., which oversaw the building and development of the parkway. He was also the Vice President and general manager of the Lincoln Highway Association and organized the Long Island Automobile Club.

He was born on July 30, 1862 in Saginaw, Michigan to the Rev. Dr. Rayner Stevens Pardington and Elizabeth Jane Cory Pardington. Later in life, he lived on Long Island and was a resident of Smithtown, New York. He marriedNov 1887 in Tecumseh, MI, Gertrude Dora Hause , with whom he had a daughter Dorothy Gertrude Pardington. Widowed, he then marriedMar 1889 in Franklin, OH, Lucile Fatima Crosley . He had two children from the second marriage, Janet Lucille Pardington and Ruth Crosley Pardington . His brother was the Rev. Dr. George Palmer Pardington of the Nyack Institute.

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