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Sources consulted for the biography of:John Hawxhurst (1817–1881)
Biographical Information
- Birth and death dates and parents' names in Robert B. Miller, "Hawxhurst Family," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (1902), 33:26.
- William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (1940), 3:415.
Political Career
- Election to Convention of 1867–1868 in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, Record Group 13, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention Which Convened at Alexandria on the 13th Day of February, 1864 (1864), first quotation on 43.
- Testimony in Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Report No. 30, part 2, pp. 20–22.
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867 (1868), third quotation on 504.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 345, 350.
- 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): 482.
Newspapers
- Washington, D.C., Evening Star, June 5, 1861 (election to Wheeling Convention).
- New York Herald, July 1, 1861 (party nomination to House of Delegates).
- Alexandria Gazette, January 23, 1864 (election to Convention of 1864); June 13, 1865 (second quotation).
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 25, 1868 (charge against Underwood).
Secondary Sources
- Richard Lowe, Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856–70 (1991).
- Sara B. Bearss, "Restored and Vindicated: The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1864," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 122 (2014): 156–181.
Obituary
- Death notice in Alexandria Gazette, April 18, 1881.
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