Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

John Edward Massey

Primary Sources
  • Birth date and marriage dates in Massey family bible in John Edward Massey Papers, 1819–1900, Accession 4189, 4189-a, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

  • John E. Massey, Autobiography of John E. Massey, ed. Elizabeth H. Hancock (1909).

  • Election to the House of Delegates in 1873 (Election Record No. 6) and 1875 (Election Record No. 10), and election to the Senate of Virginia in 1877 (Election Record No. 9) all in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

  • Report of the Special Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate Charges of Bribery and Corruption in Connection with any Member or Officer of the General Assembly, or any one Elected to Office or Position by the General Assembly at Either the Present Session or that of 1879–80, Document 22, appended to Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Begun on…December 7, 1881… (1881).

  • Papers and Testimony in the Contested-Election Case of John E. Massey v. John S. Wise From the State of Virginia at Large, 48th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Miscellaneous Document 27, Serial 2226, part 1 and Serial 2227, part 2.

  • Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1889–90 (1889), 59–60, 127.

  • Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1893–'94 (1894), 74.

  • Hostile view of Massey by a political opponent in John S. Wise, The Lion's Skin: A Historical Novel and a Novel History (1905), esp. 310, 313–318.

  • Massey's publications include:

    • Baptism: Its Mode, Subjects and Design: Also, Its Relation to the Lord's Supper: An Oral Discussion between Rev. John E. Massey and Rev. J. D. Coulling held at Shiloh, near Ivy Depot, Albemarle Co., Va., from the 10th to the 14th of July, 1860 (1861).

    • Debts and Taxes, or Obligations and Resources of Virginia (1875).

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Secondary Sources
  • George Braxton Taylor, Virginia Baptist Ministers, Fourth Series (1913), 380–385

  • Richard B. Doss, "'Parson' John E. Massey, Relentless Readjuster," Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society 11 (1950–1951): 5–18.

  • Account of libel trial in Lenoir Chambers and Joseph E. Shank, Salt Water & Printer's Ink: Norfolk and Its Newspapers, 1865–1965 (1967), 167–181.

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Newspapers
  • Religious Herald, September 9, 1847

  • Richmond Daily Dispatch, June 3, 1881; June 4, 1881; December 16, 1881, January 14, 1882; February 11, 1882; February 14, 1882

  • Richmond Dispatch, July 31, 1885; November 4, 1885; October 2, 1890; December 16, 1891; July 28, 1895

  • Richmond Times, December 3, 1897; April 21, 1901

  • Washington Post, June 3, 1881; June 4, 1881; January 22, 1882; March 14, 1882

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Obituaries
  • Charlottesville Daily Progress, April 25, 1901

  • Richmond Dispatch, April 25, 1901

  • Religious Herald, May 2, 1901

  • Virginia School Journal 10 (June 1901): 164

  • Memorial in Minutes of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Session of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (1901), 85–86.