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Sources consulted for the biography of:Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890–1979)
Primary Sources
- Birth date in Birth Register, Clarke Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Birth date in Records of Hopewell Monthly Meeting.
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Family Papers, 1769–1979 (including photocopy of birth certificate), and Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Schlesinger Library Papers, 1906–1979, both at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
- Correspondence in Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records, Accession 22002, Library of Virginia.
- Correspondence in Adèle Goodman Clark Papers, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
- Oral history interviews, Nov. 12, 1976, and March 26, 1977, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Secondary Sources
- Sara Hunter Graham, "Woman Suffrage in Virginia: The Equal Suffrage League and Pressure-Group Politics, 1909–1920," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 101 (1993): 227–250.
- Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (2017).
Newspapers and Periodicals
- Pidgeon, "From the Virginia Battle Front," Woman Citizen 4 (21 Feb. 1920): 896–897.
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 15, 1923 (portrait).
Obituaries
- Washington Star, Nov. 30, 1979.
- Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1979.
- Memorial in records of Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C. (transcription at quakersdc.org).
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