{"id":9077,"date":"2013-11-18T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:52","slug":"fite-leonard-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/fite-leonard-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"FITE, Leonard Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><strong>FITE, Leonard Beard<\/strong>, dry goods commission merchant; born Nashville, Tenn., December 21, 1856; German and Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Leonard Beard and Virginia G. L. (Randall) FITE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, wholesale dry goods merchant; educated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; interested in the wholesale dry goods business in early life; married <strong>Sarah Eunice WILLIAMS<\/strong>, October 17, 1878; member Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, Hermitage Club; President Sebowisha Fishing and Hunting Club; ex-Committeeman Travelers\u2019 Club, ex-President of same; Democrat; member of Southern Methodist Church; for last eighteen years he has been in present business.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville FITE, Leonard Beard, dry goods commission merchant; born Nashville, Tenn., December 21, 1856; German and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Leonard Beard and Virginia G. L. (Randall) FITE; father\u2019s occupation, wholesale dry goods merchant; educated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; interested in the wholesale dry goods business in early life; married Sarah Eunice WILLIAMS, October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,162,4410,4062,4419],"tags":[2581,3149,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-9077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-fite","12":"tag-randall","13":"tag-williams","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13267,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}