Stout, Florence Offutt, 1878-1958.

Mrs. Florence Offutt Stout was the daughter of Ben and Florence Graham Offutt of Jefferson County. Since her mother died at birth, she and her three older brothers were raised by their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Hyman Graham. Upon Mrs. Graham's death, the children went to live with their aunt, Mrs. Maurice Satterwhite. Florence Offutt Stout was a descendant of the Reverend James Moore, former president of Transylvania University, and a cousin of Henry Stites Barker, former president of the University of Kentucky in whose home she spent much time.

She graduated from the Louisville Girls High School and from the New Haven Connecticut Normal School of Gymnastics where she studied under Jakob Bolin, an advocate of the Swedish system of gymnastics. In addition, she studied at Chicago University. Following her graduation from New Haven, she came to Lexington and lived with her relatives, Colonel and Mrs. James E. Pepper at "Meadowthorpe."

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