Biography of M D Bridges, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 126

M. D. Bridges. In giving a brief sketch of the life of Mr. Bridges it can
with truth be said that he is one of the foremost men of his county, and has become
one of the wealthy planters of his region by honest toil and good management, and by
the aid and advice of his admirable wife. He was born in Dunklin County, Mo., in
1864, and was the sixth in a family of ten children born to Amherst D. and Charlotte
(Russell) Bridges, who were also born in Kentucky and at an early day emigrated to
Dunklin County, Mo., where they [p.126] are now residing. Here M. D. Bridges was
born, reared and educated, and as his father was a merchant and farmer by occupation,
he first worked on the farm and then clerked in his store. Later he engaged in the
saloon business at St. Francis, Mo., and after following that calling for about
eighteen months sold out, and on the 15th of March, 1887, came to Greene County, Ark.
The same year he was married, in Clay County of this State, to Mrs. Theodocia Nolen,
widow of David Nolen, and soon after moved to his present farm, which consists of 280
acres of arable land, with about 160 under cultivation. In addition to this he has
forty acres under cultivation in Clay County, the most of which he devotes to the
raising of cotton. This year (1889) he had seventy-five acres in cotton, and also
raises considerable stock. He has never been very active in politics but usually
votes the Democratic ticket; he is ever deeply interested in the proper education of
the youth of this country, and has always been a patron of education, being now a
member of the school board. Socially he is a member of Four Mile Lodge No. 412, A. F.
& A. M., and also belongs to Pittsburg Lodge No. 273, I. O. O. F., at Campbell, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Bridges are the parents of one son, Andy Lee.