Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Henry Horatio Wells

Biographical Information
  • Birth and death dates on gravestone, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

  • First wife and children documented in Estate of Millicent H. Wells, Probate Court, Wayne County, Mich.

  • National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1891–1984), 5:453.

  • Robert B. Ross, The Early Bench and Bar of Detroit from 1805 to the End of 1850 (1907), 215–216 (with variant birthplace of Romeo, Michigan).

  • Patricia Hickin, "Henry Horatio Wells: The Rise and Fall of a Carpetbagger," in The Governors of Virginia, 1860–1978, eds. Edward Younger and James Tice Moore (1982), 47–55.

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Political Career
  • Wells, To the Republicans of Virginia (n.p., n.d. [Richmond, 1868]), with June 21, 1865, letter to S. Ferguson Beach (quotation) and inaugural address.

  • Alexandria Gazette, June 23, 1865, p. 3.

  • Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, April 6–8, 1868; May 7, 1868; March 10, 11, 1869

  • Henry H. Wells Executive Papers, Record Group 3, Accession 43756, Library of Virginia.

  • Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

  • Richard Lowe, Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856–70 (1991).

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Obituaries
  • Washington, D.C., Evening Star, February 13, 1900; February 15, 1900 (account of funeral)

  • New-York Daily Tribune, February 14, 1900

  • New York Times, February 14, 1900

  • Washington Post, February 15, 1900