Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Primary Sources 
 

• Dunmore Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

• Dunmore's correspondence in:
  • William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Thomas Gage Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Haldimand Papers, Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
  • Correspondence as governor in Public Records Office, Colonial Office Papers 5/1349–1353, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
  • Most correspondence summarized or printed in K. G. Davies, ed., Documents of the American Revolution, 1770–1783 (Colonial Office Series) (1972–1981)

• Appointment as governor in Patent Roll, 11 George III, Part III, Public Records Office C 66/3730, no. 29, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)

• Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, eds., Documentary History of Dunmore's War (1905)

• Property claim in Public Records Office, Auditors Office Group 12/54, folios. 118–134, Auditors Office Group 12/109, pp. 124–125; 12/100, pp. 349–350; and 13/28, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)

• Death date of 25 Feb. 1809 at age seventy-eight on funerary monument and erroneous death date of Mar. 1809 on D'Este mausoleum in Charles Cotton, The History and Antiquities of the Church and Parish of St. Laurence, Thanet, in the County of Kent (1895), 78, 151

Secondary Sources 
 

• Percy Burdelle Caley, "Dunmore, Colonial Governor of New York and Virginia, 1770–1782" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1939)

• James Corbett David, Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America, with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings (2013)

• William C. Lowe, "The Parliamentary Career of Lord Dunmore, 1761–1774," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 96 (1988): 3–30

• W. Hugh Moomaw, "The British Leave Colonial Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 66 (1958): 147–160

• James Balfour Paul, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (1904–1914), 3:388–392 (birth year of 1730, death at age seventy-eight, and marriage date from family papers not open to research)

• John E. Selby, Dunmore (1977)

Obituaries 
 

• Gentleman's Magazine 79 (1809): 587

• Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany 71 (1809): 239 (erroneous death date of March 5, 1809)

• Family information provided by son, Leon S. Dure III (2008)
• Marriage License, Bibb County Probate Court, Macon, Georgia
• Leon S. Dure Papers, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama
• Leon Sebring Dure Papers, Accession No. 9751, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Dure's correspondence in:
• J. Harry Michael Papers, Accession No. 10071 and 10071-a, 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
• Dure's writings include:
• "A Plan of Action" (paid political advertisement), Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 20, 1958
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 8, 1961
• "Virginia Has Taken Lead in Establishing New Freedom," Richmond News Leader, January 13, 1960
• "The New Southern Response: Anatomy of Two New Freedoms," Georgia Review 15 (1961): 401–415
• "Virginia's New Freedoms," Georgia Review 18 (1964): 3–16
• "Individual Freedom Versus 'State Action,'" Virginia Quarterly Review 38 (1962): 400–409

• James W. Ely Jr., The Crisis of Conservative Virginia: The Byrd Organization and the Politics of Massive Resistance (1976), esp. 129–130
• Pamela Jane Rasche, "Leon Dure and the 'Freedom of Association'" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1977)
• Andrew Ziet Glickman, "Virginia Desegregation and the Freedom of Choice Plan: The Role of Leon Dure and the Freedom of Association" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1991)
• Earle Dunford, Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Story of a Newspaper (1995), 103–105
• James H. Hershman Jr., "Massive Resistance Meets Its Match: The Emergence of a Pro-Public School Majority," in Matthew D. Lassiter and Andrew B. Lewis, eds., The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (1998), 104–133

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 15, 1935
• Virginia Quarterly Review 38 (1962): lxvi
• Hardy Cross Dillard, "Freedom of Choice and Democratic Values," Virginia Quarterly Review 38 (1962): 410–435

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 10, 1993

• Self-reported birth date and birthplace in passport application (no. 86883), May 11, 1904, General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Hartshorn Memorial College Vertical File, Virginia Union University Archives, Richmond, Virginia
• Hartshorn Memorial College catalogs, Virginia Union University Archives, Richmond, Virginia
• Tessie P. F. Whiting Papers, Virginia Union University Archives, Richmond, Virginia
• Union-Hartshorn Journal 13 (Nov. 1912): 23
• death date confirmed by clerk of City of Cranston, Rhode Island

• biography in Mary C. Reynolds, Baptist Missionary Pioneers among Negroes (n.d.), 28–40
• M. E. D. Trowbridge, History of Baptists in Michigan (1909), 208, 211, 212
• Suzanne K. Durham, "Hartshorn Memorial College, 1883–1930: A Forgotten Legacy of African American Women's Education," American Baptist Quarterly 22 (2003): 144, 152

• death notice in Providence Journal, Januayr 14, 1921
• memorial service notice in Richmond Planet, February 6, 1921

• Age 23 on August 29, 1850 in United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1850; age 32 on July 13, 1860, in United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1860, both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Louisa County Marriage Bond, Library of Virginia (age 30 on October 4, 1858)
• Middle name possibly Bunch or Bernard in Louisa County Deed Book BB 221–222, Library of Virginia
• First and second quotations in circular letter "To the Unconditional Union Men of Virginia" (n.d. but after May 8, 1867), Lunsford Lomax Lewis Papers, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Huntington, San Marino, California (microfilm available at Library of Virginia).
• Third quotation in Marcus S. Hopkins to Orlando Brown, March 27, 1867, Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen (March–May 1867), Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia, 1865–1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Death date of July 1869 (at age 40) in United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1870, Mortality Schedule, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Estate inventory and sale in Louisa Co. Will Book, 17:494–499, Library of Virginia

• 1867 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
• Documents of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868), no. 1, "Communication from Major-General Schofield, with Accompanying Documents," 37.
• Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 28, 29, 213, 224, 284, 295, 308, 389.
• Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South" in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–484.
• Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 352.

• Richmond Enquirer, October 19, 1858
• Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, October 22, 1858
• Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 26, 1867
• Daily Richmond Whig, October 29, 1867 (letter declaring Eastham's intention to resign); April 21, 1868 (Eastham's explanation for voting against Constitution, fourth quotation)

• Autobiographical notes (with birth date of September 2, 1854) in S. Bassett French Papers II, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Monroe County, Virginia, 1850 (age one on September 9, 1850), United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Echols correspondence can be found in collections at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, including:
• Papers of Allen Caperton Braxton (Mss 3329)
• Papers of the McCue Family (Mss 4406)
• Papers of James Taylor Ellyson (Mss 4130)
• Echols correspondence can be found in collections at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, including:
• Caperton Family Papers (Mss1 C1716)
• Eggleston Family Papers (Mss1 Eg396)
• Basil Brown Gordon Papers (Mss1 G6533)
• Official results of Echols's election as lieutenant governor in Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia begun…on Wednesday, December 1, 1897… (1897), 57–63
• Conference committee's compromise for a prohibition referendum in Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia begun…on Wednesday, January 14, 1914 (1914), 291–293
• Death Certificate, Augusta County (age at death sixty-five years, three months, seventeen days), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia

• National Cyclopedia of American Biography (1891–1984), 17:182–183 (with variant birth date of September 20, 1849)
• Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Men of Mark in Virginia (1906–1909), 1:112–116 (with erroneous birth date of October 24, 1854)

• Staunton Vindicator, June 7, 1895 (reprinting Louisville Times, June 5, 1895)
• Staunton Spectator, June 12, 1895
• Richmond Times, January 13, 1901; May 5, 1901
• Washington Post, June 30, 1901

• Richmond Virginian, December 18, 1914 (with erroneous birth date of October 24, 1854); December 20, 1914
• Richmond Evening Journal, December 19, 1914 (with variant birth date of September 20, 1849)
• Staunton Daily Leader, December 19 and 21, 1914
• Richmond News Leader, December 19, 1914
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 20, 1914
• Staunton Daily News, December 20 and 22, 1914
• Memorial by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1860–1925) in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1915), 81–82

• Birth Register, Winchester, 1877, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
• Winchester Marriage License, 1905, Library of Virginia
• Self-reported personal information in C. C. Williamson and Alice L. Jewett, eds., Who's Who in Library Service, 1933 (first edition), 152, and 1943 (second edition), 152
• Charles Vernon Eddy reports, interviews, and correspondence, as well newspaper clippings, are at the Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia
• Eddy correspondence in Virginia Library Association Records, 1905–1999, Accession 32434, Organization Records Collection, Library of Virginia

• William Couper, History of the Shenandoah Valley (1952), 3:21–22
• Peter W. Roper, "The 'Discovery' of the Hotchkiss Maps and Papers," Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society Journal 4 (1989): v (Eddy biography, with portrait facing v), 22–27
• Eloise C. Strader, "The Eddy Press," Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society Journal 11 (1998–1999), ix–xi (portrait on x)
• Garland R. Quarles, John Handley and the Handley Bequests to Winchester, Virginia, 2d ed. (1998)
• Handley Regional Library: The First One Hundred Years (2012)

• Winchester Evening Star, October 10, 1904; March 22, 1905; November 4, 1905; August 22, 1913; August 23, 1913; August 27, 1913
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 28, 1923; October 30, 1938
• Harrisonburg Daily News-Record, February 11, 1928

• Winchester Evening Star, October 17, 1963 (portrait)
• Memorial in Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Emergent and Annual Communications (1964)

Primary Sources 
 

• United States Census Schedules, Halifax County, 1870 (age twenty-four on June 29), 1880 (age thirty-eight on June 21), 1900 (birth date of Apr. 1840), 1910 (age sixty-seven on Apr. 15), and 1920 (age sixty-seven on Jan. 14), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. /li>

   

• General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the Result for the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," 16.

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), 54.

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1870–71 (1871), 23, 387.

• Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia during the Session of 1883–84 (1884), 24.

• Halifax County Deed Books, 65:470–471, 74:441–442, 78:151, 154–155, 87:175–176, Library of Virginia.

• Halifax Co. Order Books, 4:300, 6:520, Library of Virginia.

• Virginia Confederate Pension Application, May 1924 (age eighty-five on May 7), Act of 1902 (Servants), Department of Accounts, Record Group 6, Accession 23345, Library of Virginia.

• Death Certificate, Halifax County (age eighty-five), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 14.

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Newspapers 
 

• Richmond Daily Whig, June 18, 1869

• Halifax Advertiser, March 5, 1887

Primary Sources 
 

• Chesterfield County Marriage Register, Library of Virginia

• February 11, 1871 application (no. 2492), Registers of Signatures of Depositors, Freedman's Savings and Trust Company (1865–1874), Records of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• Property ownership recorded in Chesterfield County Deed Books 53, 56, 61, 65, and in Land Tax Returns, Chesterfield County and Manchester, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia

• Mount Olivet Cemetery Burial Register (undated entry with age at death 52 years, 5 months, 17 days)

• variant life dates, 1830–1881, on gravestone inscription, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia

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Political Career 
 

• 1869 election results in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the Result for the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," 4, 6, 9

• 1871 election results in Election Record No. 3, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), 74, 90–91, 95, 106–107, 112 (second quotation), 208, 269, 308, 348, 393 (third quotation)

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869–71 (1871), 126

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1874 (1874), 4

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 13–14, 74, 76, 77 (photograph)

• Robert W. Waitt Jr., "Ballard T. Edwards: A Forgotten Black Leader," Richmond Literature and History Quarterly 1 (1979): 47–49 (which embellishes family and local traditions and contains several demonstrable errors)

• Numerous references in Traveling On . . . First Baptist, South Richmond, Today and The First Fifty Years, 1821–1921, volume 1 (1993, 1999)

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Newspapers 
 

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 9, 1869 (first quotation); July 10, 1869; July 12, 1869; November 8, 1871; November 9, 1871

• Norfolk Journal and Guide, February 16, 1946

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Obituaries (all misidentifying Edwards as a former member of the Senate of Virginia) 
 

• Richmond State, March 28, 1881

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 29, 1881

• Richmond Daily Whig, March 29, 1881

• Information provided by sister Harriet Edwards Smith (2007, 2008).
• Birth Certificate, Henrico County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
• Death Certificate, Henrico County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia (variant birth date of October 12, 1926).

• It's All in the Game: The Complete Hits of Tommy Edwards, Eric Records 11501-2 (1994).
• Cherry Red Records' Shout Records (RPM?) label, Tommy Edwards, It's All in the Game: the M-G-M Recordings 1958-1960 (2012).
• Jasmine Records, Tommy Edwards, the Hits and More (2012).
• Library of Congress, Unpublished Musical Compositions (1946), pt. III, Group 1:381Library of Congress, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions (1944), new ser., 39:226, 309, (1945) 40:1101.
• Michel Ruppli and Ed Novitsky, compilers, The MGM Labels: A Discography (1998), vols. 1–3.

• Don Gunter, "Back in the Game," Broadside: The Magazine of the Library of Virginia (summer 2008), 2–5
• Colin Larkin, ed., The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3d ed. (1998), 3:1712 (fifth quotation, variant birth date of February 17, 1922, and variant death date of October 22, 1969.

• Washington Post, January 19, 1947 (third quotation).
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 31, 1950; February 10, 1952; October 26, 1958; June 25, 2009.
• Variety, September 21, 1951, 44 (first quotation).
• Chicago Defender, March 1, 1952 (second quotation).
• Billboard, November 17, 1958, 8; September 29, 1962, 6; May 15, 2004, 3, 83.
• Phoenix Arizona Republic, October 18, 1959 (fourth quotation).
• Richmond News Leader, February 24, 1968.
• Henrico Citizen, June 18/July 1, 2009.

• Richmond News Leader, October 23, 1969.
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 24, 1969.
• Washington Post, October 25, 1969.

• Warren M. Billings, ed., The Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham, 1643–1695 (1989), printing baptismal, marriage, and other personal, family, and official records
• Records of Effingham's administration are printed in:
• H. R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), vol. 1
• H. R. McIlwaine, editor, Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1659/60–1693 (1914)
• Marion Tinling, ed., The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684–1776, 2 volumes (1977), 1:10, quotation
• Unfavorable contemporary evaluation of Effingham in Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia, ed. Louis B. Wright (1947), 95–97

• Warren M. Billings, Virginia's Viceroy, Their Majesties' Governor General: Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham (1991)
• Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004), esp. 56–61, 81–82