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Sources consulted for the biography of:Joseph Spencer DeJarnette (1866–1957)
Primary Sources
- Commonwealth 6 (Aug. 1939): 19
- Records of Western State Hospital, Series E, DeJarnette Personal Files, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Record Group 38, Library of Virginia (finding aid available online)
- DeJarnette's numerous publications include:
- "Some Advances in Modern Medicine, and the Benefits of Organized Effort," Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly 9 (1905): 492–494
- "Eugenics in Relation to the Insane, the Epileptic, the Feeble-Minded and Race Blending," Virginia Medical Monthly 52 (1925): 290–292
- "Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia," Virginia Medical Monthly 57 (1931): 678–680 (first quotation on 680)
- Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2001 Regular Session (2001), 2:1678 (third quotation)
Secondary Sources
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Men of Mark in Virginia (1906–1909), 4:102–103
- Paul A. Lombardo, "Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia: Aubrey Strode and the Case of Buck v. Bell" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1982), 110–115, 193–195, 242–246
- Gregory Michael Dorr, "Defective or Disabled? Race, Medicine, and Eugenics in Progressive Era Virginia and Alabama," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5 (2006): 359–392
Newspapers
- Staunton Spectator and Vindicator, February 16, 1906
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 16, 1934 (second quotation); September 10, 1943
- Richmond News Leader, January 23, 1947
- Staunton News-Leader, July 22, 1939
- Staunton Evening Leader, July 22, 1939
Obituaries
- Staunton Evening Leader, September 3, 1957; September 4, 1957 (editorial tribute)
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 4, 1957; September 9, 1957 (editorial tribute)
- Richmond News Leader, September 4, 1957
- Virginia Medical Monthly 84 (1957): 547
- funeral notice in Staunton News-Leader, September 6, 1957
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