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Sources consulted for the biography of:Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald (1873–1931)
Biographical Information
- National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1891–1984), 35:320–321, with birth date and portrait opposite 320.
- Philip Alexander Bruce, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and Richard L. Morton, History of Virginia (1924), 4:513–514, with birthdate.
- Marjorie W. Young, ed., Textile Leaders of the South (1963), 267–269.
- Variant birth date of 18 May 1873 in Birth Register, Pittsylvania Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Marriage Register, Danville, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Birth and death dates in Death Certificate no. 4966, Danville, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Ex post facto anecdotal account of strike and Fitzgerald in Julian R. Meade, I Live in Virginia (1935), esp. 6–23, 42, 61–68, 74–75.
- Robert Sidney Smith, Mill on the Dan: A History of Dan River Mills, 1882–1950 (1960).
- Robert Eugene King, "A Cultural Innovation that Failed: The Rise and Fall of 'Industrial Democracy' at the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia, 1919–1930" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1978).
- Malcolm A. Cross, Dan River Runs Deep: An Informal History of a Major Textile Company, 1950–1981 (1982), esp. 243–246.
Newspapers and Periodicals
- Laura A. Davies, "Harrison R. Fitzgerald—Cotton Mill President," Volta Review, 26 (1924): 1–10.
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 3, 1908; January 23, 1931
- Richmond News Leader, May 18, 1928
- Washington Post, October 21, 1930
Obituaries
- Danville Register, February 24–26, 1931
- New York Times, February 24, 1931
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 24, 1931
- Washington Post, February 25, 1931
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