While his younger brother James Ward Packard (1863-1928) joined him in founding the Packard Electric Company there in 1890 where they manufactured incandescent carbon arc lamps, his sister Alaska P. Davidson (1868-1934) later became the first female FBI agent.

[4][5] After disappointment with a Winton Company car he purchased, James formed a partnership with his brother and Winton investor George L. Weiss called Packard & Weiss.

The company eventually merged with the Studebaker Corporation in 1954, and the last Packard was made in 1958.

Packard commissioned a summer home to be designed by a famous architectural firm in New York City, Warren and Wetmore.

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