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Jackson Progress Argus December 1900
Kinard, Mr. Steven B. -  A Progressive Business Man
One of the most progressive and enterprising men in Jackson is Mr. Steven B. 
Kinard.
Beginning business here several years ago as a bookkeeper for Mr. J. R. 
Carmichael, he has persistently pushed his way into business world turning to 
his account the opportunities that came in his way and now finds himself at the 
head of a number of very important interests.  He has adapted  no schemes, has 
tried to displace no one in business, but all along eternal avenues that seemed 
naturally to open up to him, and each of these has responded to his almost magic 
touch with a liberal and an honest profit.
 Foremost in the list of Mr. Kinards enterprise stands the Jackson Telephone 
Exchange, with considerably  more than a hundred users, and his long lines 
touching nearly every post office and neighborhood in the county.  This system 
was begun by the establishing of a telephone line to Indian Spring.  Later on 
other lines were added and thence came the decision of the owner to put in a 
telephone exchange.  There were prophecies that this was a step in alliance of 
the growth of the town and that it would not be a paying investment, but 
developments have proved that Mr. Kinard knew the situation and that his 
judgment was good.   From the start the system has grown until instead of a few 
subscribers using hones for the novelty of the thing there is a list of more 
than a hundred who regard these privileges as a necessity.
 An important factor in the building up of this popular business has been the 
uniform kindness and courtesy  with which patrons have been treated.  It has 
also been the constant care of the manager to see that every facility is 
provided for promptly and efficiently serving the public.  The Jackson Telephone 
Exchange is now one of the leading features of our business, and he system which 
governs it is a model one and worthy of imitation.
Mr. Kinard also conducts a large coal business and in this as in other branches 
of his business he makes it a rule to deal fairly and promptly with his 
customers, thereby rendering it pleasant for them to deal with him.
The Standard Oil Co. has a very efficient agent here in the person of Mr. 
Kinard.   The business of the company is rapidly increasing and the agency here 
is one of the most satisfactory in the state.
In the line of fire insurance Mr. Kinard is a past master and has such customers 
who have such confidence in him is such that they just place themselves in his 
hands to be taken care of, never asking what company he will put them in, but 
feeling assured that in every case he will do the fair, square thing by them. 
No man in Jackson has more friends than Steven Kinard and no man has done more 
to deserve friends.
Jackson Progress Argus – December 7,1900
Note: Photo of Steven B. Kinard with article.


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