Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

WILLIAM W. HITE was born in Louisville, November 14, 1854, and is a son of
William C. and Mary (Rose) Hite, the former a native of Jefferson County;
his grandfather was from Virginia, and among the earliest settlers of the
county.  W. C. Hite (subject's father) was born in 1820, and in early life
was a steamboat clerk and captain, and was, all through life, a large
steamboat owner.  He was president of the Louisville and Evansville Mail
Line Company; of the Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Company; vice
president of the Southern Pullman Car Company; and a director in the Bank
of Kentucky; in the Louisville Gas Company; in the Union Insurance Company,
and was a prominent and successful business man; he died in 1882.  The
subject was educated in Louisville.  He succeeded his father in the
Louisville and Evansville Mail Line Company, and in other business
associations.  The firm of W. W. Hite & Co. conducts a steamboat and
railroad supply store, and have a very large and extensive business.

Hite Rose
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VA

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