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Sources consulted for the biography of:Edward Echols (1849–1914)
Primary Sources
- Autobiographical notes (with birth date of September 2, 1854) in S. Bassett French Papers II, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Monroe County, Virginia, 1850 (age one on September 9, 1850), United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Echols correspondence can be found in collections at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, including:
- Papers of Allen Caperton Braxton (Mss 3329)
- Papers of the McCue Family (Mss 4406)
- Papers of James Taylor Ellyson (Mss 4130)
- Echols correspondence can be found in collections at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, including:
- Caperton Family Papers (Mss1 C1716)
- Eggleston Family Papers (Mss1 Eg396)
- Basil Brown Gordon Papers (Mss1 G6533)
- Official results of Echols's election as lieutenant governor in Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia begun…on Wednesday, December 1, 1897… (1897), 57–63
- Conference committee's compromise for a prohibition referendum in Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia begun…on Wednesday, January 14, 1914 (1914), 291–293
- Death Certificate, Augusta County (age at death sixty-five years, three months, seventeen days), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- National Cyclopedia of American Biography (1891–1984), 17:182–183 (with variant birth date of September 20, 1849)
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Men of Mark in Virginia (1906–1909), 1:112–116 (with erroneous birth date of October 24, 1854)
Newspapers
- Staunton Vindicator, June 7, 1895 (reprinting Louisville Times, June 5, 1895)
- Staunton Spectator, June 12, 1895
- Richmond Times, January 13, 1901; May 5, 1901
- Washington Post, June 30, 1901
Obituaries
- Richmond Virginian, December 18, 1914 (with erroneous birth date of October 24, 1854); December 20, 1914
- Richmond Evening Journal, December 19, 1914 (with variant birth date of September 20, 1849)
- Staunton Daily Leader, December 19 and 21, 1914
- Richmond News Leader, December 19, 1914
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 20, 1914
- Staunton Daily News, December 20 and 22, 1914
- Memorial by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1860–1925) in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1915), 81–82
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