{"id":10924,"date":"2014-06-07T23:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10924"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:44","slug":"pitts-john-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/pitts-john-a\/","title":{"rendered":"PITTS, John A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City:\u00a0 Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>PITTS, John A., <\/b>lawyer, banker; born Wayne Co., Tenn., June 3, 1849; son of <b>John F. <\/b>and <b>Emarintha M. PITTS; <\/b>father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, <b>John<\/b> and <b>Clarissa PITTS<\/b>, maternal grandparents, <b>Abraham<\/b> and <b>Nancy MONTAGUE<\/b>; English descent; educated Clifton Masonic academy; graduated from law department of Cumberland University, in 1871, and entered practice of law at Savannah, Tenn., same in year; in 1884 moved to Jackson, Tenn.; in 1888 located at Nashville and has since resided there; in 1886 organized the Second National Bank of Jackson, Tenn., and was president of that institution until 1888; in 1891 organized the Peoples Bank of Clifton, and has ever since been its president; is now vice-president of and general counsel for Fidelity Securities Corporation and Nashville-Gallatin Interurban Railway; president Duck River Phosphate Company; director and general counsel of Gray and Dudley Hardware Co., of Nashville; general counsel for Nashville Interurban Railway; married <b>M. Ellen RICKETTS<\/b>, in 1872; member of Masons, and Vine Street Christian church of Nashville, Tenn.; director of Young Men\u2019s Christian Association of Nashville.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Nashville PITTS, John A., lawyer, banker; born Wayne Co., Tenn., June 3, 1849; son of John F. and Emarintha M. PITTS; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, John and Clarissa PITTS, maternal grandparents, Abraham and Nancy MONTAGUE; English descent; educated Clifton Masonic academy; graduated from law department of Cumberland University, in 1871, and entered practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,162,36,85,817,4062,4419],"tags":[820,3562,3563],"class_list":{"0":"post-10924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-madison","9":"category-surname-p","10":"category-wayne","11":"category-whoswho","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-montague","14":"tag-pitts","15":"tag-ricketts","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13715,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10924\/revisions\/13715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}