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Sources consulted for the biography of:Sanford M. Dodge (ca. 1820–1870)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Oswego Co., N.Y., 1850 (age thirty on July 26) and Rock Co., Wis., 1860 (age thirty-nine on July 18), both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Family information, including middle name of Maine according to family tradition, provided by descendant Marilyn Saporito (2015).
- Jonathan D. Ledyard v. Orrin G. Munger, Sandford M. Dodge, and John Dodge, June 14, 1856 (judgment), Oswego Co. Supreme Court, Oswego Co. Records Center, Oswego, N.Y.
- Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Personal Property Tax Returns, Mecklenburg Co. (1868–1869), Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Richmond City Death Certificate (age "about 49"), Library of Virginia.
Political Career
- 1867 election in Election Record no. 427, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868), 60, 199, 520, 555.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 389.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 349.
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–481.
- 1869 election in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the Result for the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," 22.
Newspapers
- Clarksville Tobacco Plant, October 18, 1867; January 10, 1868; January 31, 1868
- Daily Richmond Whig, October 29, 1867; November 13, 1867
- Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, June 5, 1868
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 16, 1870
- American Freedman, 3 (April 1869): 15
Obituaries
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 26, 1870
- Richmond Daily Whig, July 26, 1870; July 27, 1870
- Petersburg Index, July 27, 1870
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