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Sources consulted for the biography of:Edward David Bland (1848–1927)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Dinwiddie Co. (1870), Prince George Co., 1880, 1900 (which gives month and year of birth), 1910, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register (with birth place of Dinwiddie Co.), Petersburg, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Personal Property Tax Returns, Prince George Co., Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Bland letters in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- Political career reported in Richmond Whig, 1870s–1880s.
- Death Register (with birth place of Nottoway Co), Prince George Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), vi (portrait), 3.
- James T. Moore, "Black Militancy in Readjuster Virginia," Journal of Southern History 41 (1975): 167–186.
Obituaries
- Obituary and report of funeral in Petersburg Progress-Index, Feb. 14, 1927; Feb. 17, 1927.
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