Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bridgers, R. R. (Robert Rufus), 1819-1888.
