A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans, Volume 5
By Will Thomas Hale, Dixon Lanier Merritt
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York; 1913

Page 1446

Fielding L. Pittman, general manager of the Union City Cotton Gin, Union City, Tennessee, is one of the enterprising, up-to-date young men of the town. He was born in Gibson county, Tennessee, in 1884, only child of L. G. H. and Lottie (Goodman) Pittman, both natives of the “Volunteer” state. His maternal grandfather, Fielding Goodman, was a man of prominence and influence, a farmer with large land holdings in Central Tennessee, where he filled many local offices. For a number of terms he served as sheriff of Gibson county. He and his wife, Nancy (Robinson) Goodman, had four children, who became representative citizens, engaged chiefly in agricultural pursuits.

Fielding L. Pittman was reared on his father’s farm and received his education in the common schools. His early life was spent in the study and practice of mechanical engineering. After three years devoted to this line of work, he turned his attention to the cotton business, and for the past two years has been identified as manager with the Union City Cotton Gin. This prosperous concern was incorporated in 1910 by a company of Union City men, and Mr. Pittman, who up to that time had had ten years’ experience in the business, was placed in charge, and to his efficiency as general manager is due the success of the company. The plant covers an area of two acres, and the output of the gin in 1911 was 1,600 bales of cotton.

Mr. Pittman has numerous fraternal affiliations. He belongs to the F. and A. M., the O. E. S., the I. O. O. F., the W. O. W. and the B. P. O. E., in some of which he has served officially. He is a past noble grand of the I. O. O. F. and a past commander of the W. O. W. The only public office he has filled is that of revenue commissioner of Gibson county.