NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11383 JEFFERSON CO – JOHN STITES – Stites, Hunt, Chenoweth, Gill, Grant, Batterson, Hannah, Karraker, Bodley 11383 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928. JOHN STITES [photograph]. John Stites, Louisville capitalist, is well known in financial circles as president of the Louisville Trust Company, with which he has been identified in an official capacity during the past fifteen years. A native of Christian county, Kentucky, he was born on the 9th of October, 1850, the son of John and Elizabeth (Hunt) Stites. He prepared for a professional career as a law student in the University of Louisville, where he was thereafter successfully engaged in practice from 1873 until 1887, or for a period of fourteen years. It was on the 1st of August, 1887, that he became a factor in financial affairs as vice president of the Fidelity Trust Company, of which he was subsequently elected president, remaining the executive head of the institution until chosen chairman of the board of directors, in which capacity he continued until January 7, 1911. In that year he assumed the vice presidency of the Louisville Trust Company, with which he has been continuously connected to the present time and of which he has been at the head since May, 1913. The steady growth and success of the institution is largely attributable to his wise control and his thorough understanding of every phase of the banking business. Mr. Stites is also the president of the Eastern Park Land Company and the La Grange Land Company, ad interim president of the Kentucky and Louisville Mutual Fire Insurance Company and a director of the Louisville Railway Company, the Louisville Interurban Railway Company, the Proctor Coal Company, the Bourbon Stock Yard Company, and the National Bank of Kentucky. On the 4th of October, 1877, Mr. Stites was united in marriage to Mildred Ann Chenoweth, of Louisville. Their home is at 1439 St. James court, Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Stites observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary on October 4, 1927. Their family is as follows: Helen married John G. Gill and is the mother of three children, Mildred Ann, John G. (III) and Susy Barret; Mildred Stites Grant has a son and daughter, Elizabeth Lee and John Stites; John Hunt, a real estate dealer of Louisville, married Louise P. Batterson and has a son and two daughters, Sarah Parkhill, John Junt Stites, Jr., and Louie P.; Elizabeth is now Mrs. William M. Hannah and has two sons and two daughters, Frances C., William M. Jr., Nancy S., and Walter L.; Francis Bell is associated with the Laib Company; Ann Lenox is the wife of Dr. C. W. Karraker and the mother of a son and daughter; C. W. Jr., and Ann S.; James Walker married Edith Bodley, a daughter of Temple Bodley and has one son, James Walker Stites, Jr. Politically Mr. Stites is a gold democrat and he has membership in the Civic League. He also belongs to the Pendennis and Conversation Clubs of Louisville. He is a director and treasurer of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky and the Presbyterian Committee for Relief and Education. For a period of three years, from 1908 to 1911, he served as president of the International Sunday School Association. The subjective and objective forces of life in him are well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obligations. To make his native talents subserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason of the mature judgment which characterizes his efforts at all times, he stands today as a splendid representative of the prominent financier and worthy citizen to whom business is but one phase of life and does not exclude his active participation in and support of the other vital interests which go to make up human existence. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx