History of Tuskegee, (Macon County) Alabama United States of America

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Frederic Arthur Bridgman, painter, was born at Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 10, 1847. He was in the service of the American bank-note company in New York as an engraver, from 1863 to 1866, giving his leisure to the study of drawing and painting. He went to Paris in 1866, and became a pupil in the ecole des beaux arts, under direct tuition of the famous G?r?me; the influence of the master on the pupil's style was for a long time very manifest. While a student at the beaux arts, Mr. Bridgman made frequent visits to Brittany, for sketching "nature and human nature" in that picturesque province; later he made many sketching tours in the Pyrenees, in southeast Europe, in Algeria and elsewhere in Africa, in Egypt, etc. The first of his works to be exhibited was the "Jeu Breton," at the Paris salon, 1868. Besides his annual picture at the salon, he was a frequent contributor to American art exhibitions. His trip to Algeria was made in 1872; in 1873 he visited Cairo, and went up the Nile to the second cataract. The fruit of these wanderings under southern skies was a change of style and color. His salon pictures for 1873 were "The Return from the Harvest-Field" and an "Arab Villa." In 1874 he exhibited: "A Diligence in the Pyrenees" (1873); "A Calm Day in Upper Egypt," "A Nubian Story-Teller at the Harem, Cairo," and the "Prayer in the Mosque" (1876); "Preparations for the Departure of the Sacred Rug, Cairo" (1877); "Funeral of a Mammy" (1878); "Diversions of an Assyrian King" (1880): "Procession of the Bull Apis and the Women of Biskra." In 1881 he was elected an academician by the National academy of design of New York The great majority of his salon pictures after 1881 were of oriental or southern subjects, as: "The Embroiderer" (1886); "On the Terraces, Algiers" (1887); "In a Country Villa, Algiers" (1888); "Bal chez le Gouverneur d'Alger"; (1889); "Cairo Horse-Market" (1889). Mr. Bridgman exhibited about three hundred studies of his paintings in New York in 1881 and 1899. He opened in Paris a large studio for women in October, 1890.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Edward William Pou, representative, was born in Tuskegee, Macon county, Ala., Sept. 9, 1863; son of Edward William and Anna Maria (Smith) Pou; grandson of Joseph and Eliza M. (Felder) Pou, and of James H. and Nancy (Bryan) Smith; and a descendant of Gavin Pou of South Carolina. He was educated at the school of John L. Davis at Smithfield, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina. 1881-84; taught school, 1884-85; studied law under his father; was admitted to the bar in October, 1885, and began practice in Smithfield in partnership with his brother, James H. Pou, and subsequently with Furnifold M. Simmons . He was chairman of the executive committee of Johnston county in 1886, and under his administration the county became permanently Democratic. He was married Oct. 18, 1887, to Carrie, daughter of Ross and Mary Ann (Houghton) Ihrie of Pittsboro, N.C. He was a Democratic presidential elector, 1888; and was solicitor of the fourth North Carolina judicial district in 1890, 1894 and 1898. In 1896 he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for representative from the fourth North Carolina district to the 55th congress, and was elected to the 57th and 58th congresses, 1901-05, serving on the committees on reform in the civil service and expenditures in the treasury dedartment.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor