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BRIDGES, F. M. farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 10, P.O. Carrollton. The subject of this sketch may be truly said to be one of the old settlers of Greene County. Born on the old homestead of his parents, A. W. and Dorlesca Bridges, who were natives of North Carolina and Connecticut respectively. Mrs. Bridges, in all probability, settled in Greene County as early as 1821, and the following year her future husband, for she was then unmarried. As they have long since been gathered to a home not made with hands, their busy eventful life ended forever, we deem it proper to state that like nearly all pioneers on becoming housekeepers, they found themselves in poor circumstances, compared to our present mode of living; still, compared with pioneer days, they were well to do. The youthful couple working early and late soon became, not only good livers, but very comfortably situated in life, who merited the respect of their pioneer friends, who, like themselves, dared the privations of Western life and founded homes in the timber belts or prairie long before Lo was driven to the Pacific; at an advanced age the old folks passed away amid the scenes of their labors. Of Frank, whose name heads this sketch, it may be said that, in early youth, he followed farming, above the average in point of intelligence; after taking a course of study at Shurtleff College, he proceeded to Memphis, Mo., where he entered into the mercantile business. Becoming very successful, his sales footing up to $100,000 a year, in one day sales footing up to the magnificent sum of $1,000; while here he married Miss Malena Hudnall, a daughter of Dr. M. L. Hudnall; by this lady he has three children, Archibald, Helen, and Jessie; three children deceased whose names were Edgar, Nellie, and Ruth. During the Rebellion he traversed the plains for California, thence to Mexico, and thence to South America, and thence to New York; from the latter city proceeding to St. Louis. On becoming once more a resident of Greene County he purchased the property that he now owns, consisting of 225 acres in one of the best townships of Greene County. From 1874 to 1876 Mr. Bridges was our popular sheriff, being elected by a moderate majority; a candidate on the Democratic ticket with the Hon. Judge Hodges, they were the only ones obtaining their respective offices. During the present year he became the regular nominee of the Democratic party for the lower House of Representatives, becoming elected by a large majority.