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OSCAR F. BRIDGMAN, of Hickman County, was born in North Carolina, August 2, 1835, and is one of fourteen children born to Joshua and Elizabeth (Beasley) Bridgman, the former of whom was a native of the “Old Dominion,” and the latter of North Carolina. They were of German and English descent, respectively. Joshua Bridgman, when a young man, removed to North Carolina, where he was afterward married, and where he was engaged in planting until about 1840, when he came with his family to Hickman County, Ky., and bought a farm near the present site of the village of Oakton, where he resided for some five or six years. He then removed to the southern part of Ballard County, Ky., where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred December 3, 1883, in his eightieth year. Oscar F. Bridgman was employed on his father’s farm until he was twenty-one years old. He then farmed on shares in Ballard County for a short time, after which he removed to Massac County, Ill., where he bought a farm and resided for about two years. He then returned to Ballard County, Ky., where he remained until 1875, when he came to Hickman County. Here he farmed on a rented farm for about three years, and then bought a farm some two miles east of Columbus, where he resides. He was married in 1858 to Miss Margaret A. Thomas, a native of Robertson County, Ky. Eight children have blessed their union, six of whom, three sons and three daughters, are yet living. Both Mr. Bridgman and wife are members of the Baptist Church. In politics he is a Republican.