Charles Scott Bridges

Who was Charles Scott Bridges?

Charles Scott Bridges was an American corporate executive.

Bridges was born at Bridges P.O., Gloucester County, Virginia. He was the youngest of the eleven children who grew to maturity of Thomas Francis Bridges, a farmer, merchant, and postmaster, and his wife Mary Otie Bartow Bridges. His paternal grandparents were John Alexander Bridges and Florida Bridges. His earliest known ancestor in Gloucester, Simon Stubblefield, had received a land grant there in 1688. After Bridges' father suffered a stroke in 1912, the family moved to the city of Norfolk, where Bridges attended elementary school and Maury High School. In 1922, after completing high school, Bridges shipped out as an apprentice seaman on a tramp ship, the S.S. Schroon, and for the first time saw the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, which he said later decided him on a career in international business. Returning to Virginia, he attended the University of Virginia for a year, worked for a year for a food brokerage concern, and then in 1924 became a salesman in Norfolk for Libby, McNeill & Libby, one of the largest American producers of canned foods. He was to spend the remainder of his life in the employ of Libby's.