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Sources consulted for the biography of:Samuel F. Kelso (ca. 1825–1880)
Biographical Information
- U.S. Census Schedules, Lynchburg, 1870 (with age forty-three on June 24) and 1880 (age fifty-five on June 11), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Several references in Samuel L. Horst, ed., The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts: The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen's Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866–1870 (1996).
- Fourth quotation in Kelso to Ralza M. Manley, April 30, 1870, in Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Virginia (1865–1870), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Unregistered Letters Received, M1053, Roll 10, Record Group 105, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Place of birth and date of death at age fifty-five on December 4, 1880, in Death Register, Lynchburg, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Will and estate inventory in Lynchburg Will Book G:392, 413–414.
Political Career
- Kelso's 1867 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 28, 29, 35 (first quotation), 100–101.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 348.
- 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.
- Kelso's 1869 election return in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," p. 8.
Newspapers
- Campaign speech reported in Lynchburg Daily News, October 15, 1867.
- Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, January 22, 1868 (third quotation); April 8, 1868 (second quotation).
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 15, 1873 (fifth quotation).
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