Kenneth Robert Wells

Background

Wells, Kenneth Robert was born on March 15, 1904 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, United States. Son of Robert Joseph and Sarah E. (Langford) Wells.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Minnesota, 1929. Diploma Graduate School Banking Rutgers University, 1944.

Career

Assistant credit manager Minneapolis district B. F. Goodrich Company, 1927-1929. With Commercial Investment Trust, Inc., Chicago, 1929-1939. With American National Bank & Trust Company, Chicago, since 1939, assistant cashier, 1942-1944, assistant vice president, 1944-1948, vice president industrial loaning division since 1948.

Lecturer finance Northwestern University, 1947-1952, Central States School Banking University of Wisconsin, 1950.

Politics

Represented in Baptist churches are equally diverse worship styles, cultural mores and approaches to Scriptural interpretation. The resulting challenges and opportunities have made the believers stronger —through fellowship, respect, mutual support and dialog, all based on a belief that unity in Christ involves growth and understanding.

Views

The family is the most basic of human institutions through which people are nurtured and sustained in love, responsibility, and respect.

Membership

Member Chicago Association Commerce and Industry (director 1952-1953), Chicago Credit Mens’ Association (treasurer, director 1953-1954, American, Illinois (president of installment lending division 1952-1953) bankers associations, National Construction Machinery Credit Group (treasurer), Robert Morris Associates, Theta Xi. Clubs: Union League, Bankers (Chicago).

Connections

Married Dorothy P. Kenning, February 2, 1929.

Father:

Robert Joseph Wells

Mother:

Sarah E. (Langford) Wells

Spouse:

Dorothy P. Kenning