The biographies of Durham Citizens are largely confined to newspaper articles although Illustrious citizens have had published biographies. Collelction descriptions s of manuscripts in the Duke 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 authoratative 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
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
