City: Dixon Spring
BRIDGEWATER, Samuel Chambers, physician; born Dixon Spring, Tenn., Feb. 4, 1856; English descent son of Major John C. and Mary F. (Vaughan) BRIDGEWATER; father was a merchant who died in the Confederate Army 1864; paternal grandparents Chesley and Nancy (Chambers) BRIDGEWATER, maternal grandparents Col J. H. and Elizabeth (Mitchell) VAUGHAN; educated local schools Dixon Spring, Tenn., and at Nashville, Tenn., with post graduate work in New York city; graduated University of Nashville with degree of M. D. 1877; engaged in the practice of medicine at Dixon Spring and is President of Dixon Spring Bank; largely interested in real estate; married Nannie BURFORD, 1887, member Knights of Pythias; Democrat.
