Personal Life
Paul Pardee Hastings was born on October 22, 1872 in the family home in Farmington, Atchison County, Kansas and died on September 16, 1947 in Saratoga, California. He was the second oldest of a family of seven. His father was Z. S. Hastings, a well-known farmer and preacher. His mother was the former Rosetta Butler, who was active in the temperance and anti-smoking movements. His mother's father was Pardee Butler, a Kansas pioneer and preacher, active in the abolition movement before the American Civil War. His youngest brother, Milo Hastings, was a well-published inventor, author, and nutritionist.
Hastings married Frances Charlotte Reed on November 20, 1901 when he was 29. They had two children: Ross Reed (b. October 19, 1903) and Marylyn (b. November 2, 1908). The first child was born in the historic Barry Goldwater house in Prescott, Arizona.
Hastings was active in local social and civic organizations. While living in Jerome, Arizona in 1900 he was president of the Blue Rock Gun club. Prior to Arizona becoming a state in 1912, he was active in the anti statehood movement as one the representatives from Yavapai County in the 1905 convention. He was a director of the Prescott Yavapai Club during 1905; treasurer was M. Goldwater, grandfather of Barry Goldwater.
After Hastings death in 1947 one of the tugs in the fleet of Santa Fe Railroad Tugboats was named in his honor in 1948.
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