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Sources consulted for the biography of:William W. Evans ( –1892)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Spotsylvania County, 1870 (age nine on June 5), Dinwiddie County, 1880 (age twenty on June 2), both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (quotation in Evans to Mahone, November 22, 1888).
- Election result in Election Record no. 24 (1887), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Virginia General Assembly, House of Delegates, Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1887–1888), 74, 75.
- John M. Langston vs. E. C. Venable, 51st Congress, 1st session, 1890, House of Representatives Report 2462, serial 2814, 38–41
- Petersburg Minute Books (1884–1886), 416–417; (1887–1889), 270; (1889–1891), 344–345, Library of Virginia.
- Death Register (age thirty), Petersburg, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 15 (with frontispiece portrait).
- William D. Henderson, Gilded Age City: Politics, Life, and Labor in Petersburg, Virginia, 1874–1889 (1980), 112, 141, 172, 215, 226–227.
Newspapers
- Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, May 4, 1882; May 26, 1882; August 31, 1887; October 15, 1887; October 22, 1887; October 26, 1887; November 2, 1887; November 9, 1887; December 21, 1887; June 21, 1890; June 23, 1890
- Richmond Dispatch, September 15, 1887; December 18, 1889
- Washington, D.C., National Leader, February 2, 1889
- Baltimore Sun, January 27, 1890
Obituaries
- Death and funeral notices in Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, November 18, 1892; November 19, 1892
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