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Submitted: 7/11/21 • Approved: 7/15/21 • Last Updated: 7/18/21 • R1381849-G0-S3
November 15, 1843 - July 9, 1913
S. H. Stitt, proprietor Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. there is nothing adds so much to the prestige of a city, in the estimation of a stranger, as first-class hotel accommodations. Prominent among those of Hot Springs comes the old and familiar Arlington House, which name has about it the ring of a familiar and tried friend. The proprietor, Mr. Stitt, is a native of Tennessee, was reared in Nashville, and there received his education in the public schools. At the age of sixteen years he engaged in business, principally the hotel occupation, and in 1867 came to Little Rock, where he was in the ice trade until 1869. He then located in Hot Springs, and in 1870 opened the Hot Springs Hotel, associated with Maj. W. H. Gaines, and ran this until 1874, when he sold out. Then in connection with Col. W. S. Fordyce, president of the St. Louis & Texas Railroad, he erected the Arlington Hotel, which is now the most popular house at Hot Springs. It is located near bath-houses and has every convenience. The house contains 180 rooms, and special rates are made to commercial men. Mr. Stitt is a prince among hotel men, is naturally suited and adapted for it; he keeps his help constantly under supervision, and sees that guests are properly cared for. His marriage took place in 1875 to Miss Augusta, daughter of Maj. W. H. Gaines, and by her became the father of five children. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the I. O. O. F. He was born at Bridgeport, England, but came to America with his parents when an infant, and located in Nashville, Tenn. (Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs - Garland County)
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