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Sources consulted for the biography of:Thomas Benton Fitzgerald (1840–1929)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates in Death Certificate, Danville, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage License, 1868, Pittsylvania County.
- State Corporation Commission Charter Book, 4:392–394, 5:211–213, 324–327, 470–471, 8:201–205, 14:20–24, 28:252–258, 49:108–110, 70:24–28, Record Group 112, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Duval Porter, ed., Men, Places and Things (1891), 359–360.
- Robert Sidney Smith, "Mill on the Dan: Riverside Cotton Mills, 1882–1901," Journal of Southern History 21 (1955): 38–66.
- Robert Sidney Smith, Mill on the Dan: A History of Dan River Mills, 1882–1950 (1960).
- Marjorie W. Young, ed., Textile Leaders of the South (1963), 266–270 (portrait on 266).
- Malcolm A. Cross, Dan River Runs Deep: An Informal History of a Major Textile Company, 1950–1981 (1982), 240–248.
Obituaries
- Danville Register, January 6, 1929
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 6, 1929
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