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R. R. Bridgers

Also found in catalogs as R. R. (Robert Rufus) Bridgers.

1819–1888 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present

Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen

Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Bridgers, R. R. -- 1819-1888.

Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Company records, 1828-1917

Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Company · 1828

Business records of the Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Company, 1828 to 1917. Topics include iron mines and mining in nineteenth century North Carolina, industry at Chapel Hill and real property, and include William J. Askew, Preston L. and R. R. Bridgers, Robert F. Hoke and William S. Primrose. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4201-z.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bridgers, R. R. (Robert Rufus), 1819-1888.

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