Adrian D. Dugger, merchant of Jackson, Tenn., was born in Petersburg, Va., February 14, 1845, son of William and Sarah (Foster) Dugger, both natives of Virginia. The father removed to Panola County, Miss., in 1848, where our subject was raised and educated. Upon the breaking out of the war he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-ninth Regiment Mississippi Infantry, participating in twenty-three battles, and was slightly wounded five times. After the war he engaged in mercantile business in Mississippi, and accepted still later the position of deputy circuit clerk and deputy sheriff of Panola County, Miss., and in 1874 came to Jackson and engaged as clerk and book-keeper in a mercantile business, and in 1878 returned to Mississippi, but in 1880 again returned here and engaged in the grocery business, in which he has continued until the present time, having met with good and well deserved success, and carries the largest and best selected stock of groceries in the city and county, and commands the leading trade in his line. In 1878 Mr. Dugger married Miss Sallie T. Hall, daughter of R. W. Hall, of this city; they have two sons living. He is a Democrat, Mason and a member of the I.O.O.F., K. of H., K. of G. R., A. O. U. W., and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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