Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Raymond Emmett Dandridge

Biographies
  • Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass Jr., Virginia Democracy (1937), 2:50–53.

  • Guy Friddell, Colgate Darden: Conversations with Guy Friddell (1978), with second quotation on 164.

  • Stuart I. Rochester and Jonathan J. Wolfe, "Colgate W. Darden, Jr.: The Noblest Roman of Them All," in Edward Younger and James Tice Moore, eds., The Governors of Virginia, 1860–1978 (1982), 291–305.

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Primary Sources
  • Darden's military service record questionnaire in Virginia War History Commission, Individual Service Records (Questionnaires), 1919–1924, Accession 37219, Library of Virginia.

  • Colgate Whitehead Darden Executive Papers, 1942–1946, Record Group 3, Accession 23566, Library of Virginia.

  • Papers of the President and Darden correspondence in numerous other collections, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Darden sound recordings in WRVA Radio Collection (esp. WRVA–221), Accession 38210, Library of Virginia.

  • Oral History Interviews:

    • Interviews by John T. Mason Jr. (typescript), 1969, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Md., published as Mason, The Reminiscences of the Honorable Colgate W. Darden, Jr. (1984).
    • Interview by Ann L. S. Southwell and Michael F. Plunkett (typescript), ca. 1972, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
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Secondary Sources
  • Jonathan J. Wolfe, "Virginia in World War II" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1971).

  • Virginius Dabney, Mr. Jefferson's University: A History (1981), first quotation on 283.

  • Ronald L. Heinemann, Harry Byrd of Virginia (1996).

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Newspapers
  • Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 3 Dec. 1927

  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 6, 1941; January 22, 1942 (includes text of gubernatorial inaugural address); January 10, 1946; January 13, 1946

  • Washington Post, September 28, 1941; June 22, 1958 (third quotation); February 13, 1969

  • Charlottesville Daily Progress, June 14, 1958; June 15, 1959

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Obituaries and Editorial Tributes
  • Norfolk Ledger-Star, June 9, 1981; June 10, 1981

  • Richmond News Leader, June 9, 1981

  • New York Times, June 10, 1981

  • Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, June 10, 1981

  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 10, 1981; June 11, 1981

  • Washington Post, June 10, 1981; June 15, 1981

Primary Sources
  • Birth, marriage, ordination, and death dates in Davies Family Bible Records, 1723–1943 Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia

  • Davies letters, diaries, and other manuscripts in:

    • Rush Family Papers, Library Company of Philadelphia (on deposit with Historical Society of Pennsylvania), in Samuel Davies Papers, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Office of the President Records, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
    • Samuel Davies Collection, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

  • Other correspondence in:

    • Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies, &c., Shewing the State of Religion in Virginia, Particularly among the Negroes (1757)
    • William Henry Foote, Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, 1st ser. (1850), 157–307 (first quotation on 205)
    • Literary Manuscripts, Dr. Williams's Library, London (second quotation in letter to Mr. Forset, L61/3/1)
    • Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (third quotation in 14:269–270)
    • William Dawson Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  • George William Pilcher, ed., The Reverend Samuel Davies Abroad: The Diary of a Journey to England and Scotland, 1753–55 (1967)

  • Richard Beale Davis, ed., Collected Poems of Samuel Davies, 1723–1761 (1968)


Published Sermons
  • Davies, The Curse of Cowardice: A Sermon Preached to the Militia of Hanover County, in Virginia, at a General Muster, May 8, 1758 (1758), with fourth and fifth quotations on 13, 19

  • Davies, Sermons on Important Subjects (several editions)


Secondary Sources
  • George William Pilcher, Samuel Davies: Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia (1971)

  • J. A. Leo Lemay, "The Rev. Samuel Davies' Essay Series: The Virginia Centinel, 1756–1757," in Lemay, ed., Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis (1977), 121–163

  • Dan M. Hockman, "'Hellish and Malicious Incendiaries': Commissary William Dawson and Dissent in Colonial Virginia, 1743–1752," Anglican and Episcopal History 59 (1990): 150–180

  • Jeffrey H. Richards, "Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 111 (2003): 333–378


Obituaries
  • Philadelphia Pennsylvania Gazette, February 12, 1761
Biographical Information
  • Biographical note with birthplace in Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers . . . (1810), 2:149

  • Some reminiscences of Davis in Samuel Mordecai, Richmond in By-Gone Days (1860), 229–232

  • Marriage bond in York County Marriage Bonds and Consents, 1772–1849, Library of Virginia

  • Copy of will in William Ransom Johnson Papers, Accession no. 38-203, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

  • Shockoe Hill Cemetery Interment Register, Library of Virginia (died at age seventy)


Primary Sources
  • Davis correspondence in:
    • Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/) and printed in Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1950–), vols. 16, 18, 20, 22
    • Executive Papers of various Virginia governors, 1788–1804, Record Group 3, Library of Virginia (printed and abstracted in part in William P. Palmer et al., eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, 1652–1869 (1875–1893)

  • Petition of John Clarkson and Augustine Davis, n.d. (received May 8, 1779), Legislative Petitions, Williamsburg, Record Group 78, Library of Virginia

  • Petition of John Clarkson and Augustine Davis, n.d. (received May 12, 1780), Legislative Petitions, Richmond City, Record Group 78, Library of Virginia

  • Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia (1779), 43

  • Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia (1780), 7–8

  • Henry R. McIlwaine et al., eds., Journals of Council of State, 1776–1791 (1931–1982), 5:286

  • Journal of the Convention of Virginia (1788), 6


Secondary Sources
  • A. Paull Hubbard Jr., Notes on the Book Trade in Richmond, Virginia . . . [ca. 1986], fascicle 6

  • David Andrew Rawson, "'Guardians of Their Own Liberty': A Contextual History of Print Culture in Virginia Society, 1750 to 1820" (Ph.D. diss., The College of William and Mary, 1998), esp. 316–328


Newspapers
  • Lottery winnings in Virginia Herald, and Fredericksburg Advertiser, November 17, 1791

Obituaries
  • Lost issue of Richmond Commercial Compiler, November 3, 1825 (reprinted in Norfolk American Beacon, and Virginia and North-Carolina Gazette, November 8 1825, with erroneous death date of November 3, 1825, which was burial date)

  • Richmond Constitutional Whig (with death date of November 2, 1825 "in the 73d year of his age"), November 4, 1825, (copied or abstracted in numerous other Virginia newspapers)

  • Richmond Enquirer, November 4, 1825, (copied or abstracted in numerous other Virginia newspapers)

  • Fredericksburg Virginia Herald, November 9, 1825

  • Estate sale advertised in Richmond Enquirer, October 6, 1829

Primary Sources
  • Birth and death dates on gravestone, Barton Heights Cemeteries, Richmond, Virginia.

  • Daniel Webster Davis Papers (including correspondence, typescripts of speeches, unpublished poems, and printed funeral program with birth date), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

  • Marriage Register, Richmond City (with Hanover Co. birthplace, father's name Randall, and month and year only of marriage), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

  • Death Certificate, Richmond City (with Caroline County birthplace and father's name John), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

  • Davis's publications include:

    • "Did the American Negro Make, in the Nineteenth Century, Achievements Along the Lines of Wealth, Morality, Education, Etc., Commensurate with His Opportunities? If So, What Achievements Did He Make?" in D. W. Culp, ed., Twentieth Century Negro Literature, or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro (1902), 38–41 (with marriage date and father's name Randall facing page 39).

    • "The Sunday-school and Church as a Solution of the Negro Problem," The Development of the Sunday School, 1870–1905 (1905), 293–300.

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Secondary Sources
  • I. Garland Penn, The Afro-American Press, and Its Editors (1891), 326–330 (with birth date and Caroline Co. birthplace).

  • W. N. Hartshorn and George W. Penniman, eds., An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863–1910: The Religious, Moral, and Educational Development of the American Negro Since His Emancipation (1910), 454 (with Hanover Co. birthplace and portrait).

  • Lottie Davis Harrison (daughter), "Daniel Webster Davis," Negro History Bulletin 18 (1954): 55–57 (Caroline Co. birthplace).

  • Joan R. Sherman, "Daniel Webster Davis: A Black Virginia Poet in the Age of Accommodation," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 81 (1973): 457–478.

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Obituaries
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 28, 1913 (editorial tribute); October 29, 1913

  • Richmond News Leader, October 28, 1913 (editorial tribute)

  • Richmond Planet, November 1, 1913

  • Hampton Colored Virginian (copy in Peabody Newspaper Clipping File [microfiche ed.], item 25, nos. 1–9, Hampton), November 1, 1913

Primary Sources
  • Self-reported birth date in World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards (1917–1918), Record Group 163, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  • Marriage Register, Princess Anne County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia (parents given as J. F. Davis and J. O. Davis)

  • March 18, 1931 deed of marriage separation and other materials in Harry B. Davis Papers, Henry Clay Hofheimer II Library, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia

  • Davis's correspondence in:

    • Martin Ashton Hutchinson Papers, Accession no. 7736, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

    • Robert Whitehead Papers, Accession no. 6409-c, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

  • James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008)


Secondary Sources
  • Stephen S. Mansfield, "Harry B. Davis," Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach Historical Society Newsletter 1 (spring 1998)

  • Robbins L. Gates, The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954–1956 (1962)


Newspapers
  • Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, April 10, 1959; April 14, 1959; May 31, 1959; July 2, 1959; July 16, 1959 (with variant vote total of 5,889 to 4,383)

  • quotation in Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and the Portsmouth Star, July 2, 1959

  • Washington Post, July 6, 1959

  • Virginia Beach Sun-News, July 16, 1959

  • Feature article in Virginia Beach Beacon, February 12/13, 1981


Obituaries
  • Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger Star, July 19, 1987
Published Biographies
  • Lucian Minor, Discourse on the Life and Character of the Late John A. G. Davis . . . (1847).

  • Biography by Eugene Davis (son) in Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia 1 (Feb. 1895): 101–103.

  • Lewis Ashby Martin III, "John A. G. Davis, Professor of Law, and the Faculty of the University of Virginia, 1830–1840" (Master's thesis, University of Virginia, 1974).

  • E. Lee Shepard, "John Anthony Gardner Davis," in Legal Education in Virginia, 1779–1979: A Biographical Approach, ed. W. Hamilton Bryson, 181–185 (1982).

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Primary Sources
  • Birth date on gravestone, University of Virginia Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Marriage date in Davis family Bible records (1821–1925), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.

  • Davis correspondence in Nicholas Philip Trist Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  • Quotation in Andrew L. Pickens to Samuel Pickens, January 5, 1838, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Albemarle Co. Will Book, 14:108

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Accounts of Death
  • Peter Carr to Warwick Miller, November 18, 1840, Letters to Warwick Miller, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Robert Lewis Dabney to Charles W. Dabney, November 15, 1840, December 7, 1840, and February 23, 1841, Dabney Family Papers, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • John Augustine Washington to his mother, November 20, 1840, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Charles Eversfield to his mother, November 23, 1840, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Fredericksburg Political Arena, November 17, 1840

  • Richmond Compiler, November 17, 1840

  • Richmond Enquirer, November 17, 1840

  • Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, November 17, 1840

  • Jeff Seiken and Liz Marshall, "Tragedy on the Lawn: The Murder of Professor John A. G. Davis," Virginia Cavalcade 34 (1984): 40–47.

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Obituaries and Memorials
  • Richmond Compiler, November 23, 1840 (faculty memorial resolutions)

  • Fredericksburg Political Arena, November 24, 1840 (obituary and faculty memorial resolutions)

  • Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, November 24, 1840 (faculty memorial resolutions); November 27, 1840 (obituary reprinted from Fredericksburg Political Arena)

Primary Sources
  • Lynchburg Free Negro Register (1843–1865), no. 993 (John Davis, age "about twenty seven years" on Mar. 3, 1847), Library of Virginia.

  • Lynchburg Register of Colored Population, 1865 (John Davis and his wife Ann), Library of Virginia.

  • United States Census Schedules, Campbell County, 1870 (age forty-three on July 27), and Roanoke County, 1880 (age fifty-nine on June 11–12), both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  • Davis deposition (giving age "about 60 years" on 9 July 1887), J. N. Gordon's Committee v. John H. Davis et als., 1887-052, Lynchburg City Chancery Records (1807–1945), Local Government Collections, Lynchburg Court Records, Library of Virginia.

  • Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

  • Quotation in Daniel B. Williams, Emancipation Address: Our Duties and How to Discharge Them, . . . January 2, 1893 (1893), 7.

  • Death Register (age sixty-nine), Roanoke City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

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Secondary Sources
  • Lester J. Cappon, Virginia Newspapers, 1821–1935 (1936), 196.

  • Raymond P. Barnes, A History of Roanoke (1968), 292, 347–348.

  • Rand Dotson, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South (2007).

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Newspapers
  • Richmond Daily Whig, April 24, 1884

  • Roanoke Leader, May 30, 1885

  • Roanoke Weekly Press, April 2, 1892

  • Roanoke Times, April 29, 1892; April 30, 1892; October 14, 1892

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Obituaries
  • Roanoke Daily Times, July 21, 1896 (age sixty-five)