The biographies of Durham Citizens are largely confined to newspaper articles although Illustrious citizens have had published biographies. Collection descriptions of manuscripts in the Duke's Rubenstein Special Collections Library often include authoratative, if brief biographical notations.
Julian S Carr
Jule Carr : general without an army by Webb, Mena. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1987.)
F264.D9 W43 1987
James B Duke,
Bold entrepreneur : a life of James B. Duke by Durden, Robert Franklin. (Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, c2003.)
HD9140.D85 D873 2003
Washington Duke,
There is no authoritative single biography of the progenitor of the Duke family, but a collective biography of the family and a great book is:
The Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929 by Durden, Robert Franklin. (Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1975.)
CS71 .D877 1975
George W. Watts
George W Watts was both a businessman and one of Durham's earliest and greatest philanthropists. This book also covers his descendants who have been important members of the Durham community. Favored by fortune : George W. Watts & the Hills of Durham by Covington, Howard E. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, c2004.)
Perkins and Lilly: F264 .D9 C69 2004
