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Sources consulted for the biography of:James Hardy Dillard (1856–1940)
Biographical Information
- Benjamin Brawley, Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund (1930), including frontispiece and other portraits, and birth date.
- National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1891–1984), 34:233–234.
- John Edward McNeal, "James Hardy Dillard: Southern Humanitarian" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1970).
- D. Ralph Davison, Jr., "James Hardy Dillard: A Christian Educator in the Segregated South," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 55 (1986): 113–126.
- U. S. Census Schedules, Southampton Co., 1860 (with birthplace of Southampton Co.), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- First marriage in Marriage Register, Norfolk City (1881, with birthplace of Nansemond Co.), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Second marriage in New Orleans Daily Picayune, November 19, 1899.
- Birthday tributes by John Stewart Bryan and Anson Phelps Stokes in Southern Workman 65 (1936): 363–370.
Primary Sources
- James Hardy Dillard Papers and Dillard Family Papers, both in Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Southern Education Foundation Records and James Hardy Dillard Correspondence and Administrative Records, all in Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.
- Published annual reports of the Negro Rural School Fund and of the John F. Slater Fund.
Obituaries and Editorial Tributes
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, August 3, 1940; August 6, 1940
- New York Times, August 3, 1940
- Richmond News Leader, August 3, 1940; August 5, 1940
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 3, 1940; August 4, 1940 (quotations)
- Washington Post, August 3, 1940
- Norfolk Journal and Guide (national ed.), August 10, 1940
- Memorial in Journal of Negro History 25 (1940): 585–586.
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