Davidson-Wayne County TN Archives Biographies.....Pitts, John A. 1849 - 
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Author: Will T. Hale

   JOHN A. PITTS. More than forty years of successful practice at the bar and

high connections with business and banking have made John A. Pitts of Nashville

one of the most influential and best known Tennesseeans of the present

generation. He is a native son of the state and has risen by his own ability and

years of service to large responsibilities and honors.



   He was born in Wayne county on June 3, 1849. His family is of English

descent. His parents were John F. and Emarintha M. Pitts, the paternal

grandparents being John and Clarissa Pitts, and the maternal grandparents,

Abraham and Nancy Montague.



   On his father's farm, where he was born, he spent most of his youth, and his

early education was obtained at the Clifton Masonic Academy. He was graduated

from the law department of Cumberland University of Lebanon in 1871, and the

same year opened his office for practice at Savannah, this state. From 1884 to

1888 he practiced at Jackson, Tennessee, and since the latter date has been a

resident of Nashville. Early in his career he made a record for ability and

thorough care and skill in handling his cases, and he soon reached the place

where he could select his own practice.



   In 1886 Mr. Pitts organized the Second National Bank of Jackson and was its

president until he came to Nashville. In 1891 he organized the People's Bank of

Clifton, of which he has been and still is president. He has many other

distinctions in business affairs. He is vice president and general counsel for

the Fidelity Securities Corporation and for the Nashville-Gallatin Interurban

Railway; is president of the Beech River Phosphate Company; is a director and

general counsel of the Gray & Dudley Hardware Company of Nashville; and is

general counsel for the Nashville Interurban Railway.



   Mr. Pitts was married in 1872 to Miss M. Ellen Ricketts. He is affiliated

with the Masonic order and is one of the active members of the Vine Street

Christian church. He is also a director of the Nashville Y. M. C. A. Mr. Pitts

besides being an able lawyer and successful business man is one of the

public-spirited citizens of his city and state, lends his aid and influence to

the promotion of the welfare of the community, and is a loyal friend and

supporter of education and religion.





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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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