Fayette-Owen-Scott County KyArchives Biographies.....Glass, Seth Amnon 1874 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com February 21, 2007, 8:02 pm Author: Frederick A. Wallis (1945) SETH AMNON GLASS SETH A. GLASS is one of the farseeing merchants who forty years ago visualized the possibilities of the chain store system with its consolidated buying power and recognized Lexington, Kentucky, as natural headquarters for this class of commercial endeavor. He began his business career in the Blue Grass city at the age of twenty-five and is now the head of one of central Kentucky's most prosperous grocery store chains. Seth Amnon Glass was born in Owen County, Kentucky, August 14, 1874, one of six children. He is the son of Horace Sanford Glass, a prominent farmer and merchant of that county, who died in 1917. He was of the well known Virginia family of the name who came to Kentucky in the course of the early migratory years from the Atlantic seaboard. The subject's mother was Mary (Wilson) Glass, of Owen County, Kentucky, and she was a daughter of Silas H. Wilson, a prominent farmer of that county. She passed away in 1942 at the ripe age of ninety-three. On August 6, 1902, S. A. Glass was married to Anna Hays of Fayette County, Kentucky, and they are the parents of Donald Hays Glass, now a Captain serving in the United States Army stationed at Camp Fannin, Texas. He married Nancy Belle Moss, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, who graduated from the University of Kentucky and Ward-Belmont College at Nashville, Tennessee. Captain Glass also graduated from the University of Kentucky. Seth Amnon Glass attended the schools of Owen County, Kentucky in his boyhood and entered the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1894. Leaving that institution in 1899 as Captain of the Military Department he began his career by entering the grocery business in Lexington. He brought but little money to the venture but he was endowed with youth, energy and a determination to succeed and how well he has done so is attested by the fact that today he owns and operates twenty-four branch stores, or a "chain" covering his home city of Lexington and the adjacent cities of Georgetown and Versailles, Kentucky. The business was profitable from the first and the profit has been turned back into the expansion program and this policy has made it the most important chain grocery system in central and eastern Kentucky. All his energies have not been devoted to the grocery business, however, for in 1924 he became one of the organizers of the Lexington Federal Savings and Loan Association of which he was elected President, an office he continues to hold. He served as President of the Kentucky Savings and Loan League in 1938-39, and is now a member of its board of directors. He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Transylvania College, a position he creditably filled for twelve years, and also served Transylvania as a Curate. He was President of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce for the year 1923-24, and has been an active member of the Lexington Rotary Club for thirty years. He is a Democrat in politics and finds his relaxation in golf in which sport he is credited with playing a good game, holding membership in the Lexington Country Club. Mrs. Seth Glass is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and gives time to its work and purposes while presiding as the head of the Glass home at 224 South Ashland Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky. Seth Amnon Glass is an esteemed citizen and a solid business man whose personal life is on the same high plane as his business, a member of the Central Christian Church he devotes his time and talents to its work as well as to any sound civic or social movement that calls on him. A man who has attained success by his own hard work, business fairness and ability he stands high in the community in which he lives. Additional Comments: A Sesqui-Centennial History of Kentucky Published 1945 A Narrative Historical Edition, Commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of Statehood, Preserving the Record of the Growth and Development of the Commonwealth, and Chronicling the Genealogical and Memorial Records of its Prominent Families and Personages. FREDERICK A. WALLIS Supervising Editor GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HAMBLETON TAPP, A. B. M. A. Author and Editor HISTORICAL THE HISTORICAL RECORD ASSOCIATION HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/bios/glass365gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/