Indexed works
Works about or by R. R. Bridgers. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
Research sources
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Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for R. R. Bridgers Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
