Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Jennie Serepta Dean

Newspapers
  • Columbia, S.C., State, April 11, 1892

  • Southern Workman 25 (1896): 56–57

  • New York Evening Post, January 11, 1905

  • Washington Evening Star, February 5, 1907

  • Peabody Newspaper Clipping File (microfiche ed.), item 127, nos. 1–8, William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia


Obituaries
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 6, 1913

  • Manassas Journal, May 9, 1913

  • memorial in Manassas Journal, May 10, 1918

Primary Sources
  • Autobiography in A Battleground School: A Colored Woman's Work in Uplifting Negro Boys and Girls; The Story of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth (n.d. but 1905 or later), 5–11

  • Age 18 on June 16 and first name Jane in Census, Prince William Co., 1870, United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  • Manassas Industrial School documents in General Education Board Archives, ser. 1: Appropriations, subseries 1: The Early Southern Program, Virginia, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York

  • Birth date, birthplace, and middle name provided by sister on Death Certificate, Prince William Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia


Secondary Sources
  • Stephen Johnson Lewis, Undaunted Faith: The Life Story of Jennie Dean, Missionary, Teacher, Crusader, Builder, Founder of the Manassas Industrial School (1994 ed.)

  • Angel David Nieves, "'We Gave Our Hearts and Lives To It': African-American Women Reformers, Industrial Education, and the Monuments of Nation-Building in the Post-Reconstruction South, 1877–1938" (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 2001), 238–278, 291–309