Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Letitia Pate Whitehead Evans

Primary Sources 
 

  • United States Census Schedules, Prince Edward County, 1850 (age nineteen on Aug. 22), 1860 (age twenty-eight on July 31), 1870 (age thirty-nine on June 22), 1880 (age forty-eight on June 2), and 1900 (birth date of Feb. 1831), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

 

  • Registration as a free person of color in Prince Edward County Order Book, 26:409 (age eighteen on Jan. 20, 1851), 27:195 (age "about twenty three" on Nov. 17, 1856), Library of Virginia.

 

  • Register of Colored Persons of Prince Edward County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife on 27th February, 1866, Library of Virginia.

 

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

 

  • Prince Edward County Deed Book, 28:594, 29:66–67, 31:31–32, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Election results in Election Record no. 13 (1877) and no. 14 (1879), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Virginia General Assembly, House of Delegates, Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1877–1878 session), 77, 204, 284, 513–514; (1878–1879 session), 118, 546; (1879–1880 session), 53, 60, 125, 386, 399, 404

 

  • Prince Edward County Will Book, 15:205–207, Library of Virginia.


Secondary Sources 
 

  • Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 15–16.

 

  • Herbert Clarence Bradshaw, History of Prince Edward County, Virginia, From its Earliest Settlements through its Establishment in 1754 To its Bicentennial Year (1955), 429, 438, 448, 695, 798.

 

  • Melvin Patrick Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War (2004), 420, 424.


Newspapers 
 

  • Richmond Daily Dispatch, September 24, 1877; November 9, 1877; November 7, 1879; November 8, 1879

 

  • Richmond Daily Whig, January 17, 1879


Obituaries 
 

  • Farmville Herald, October 19, 1900 (died "in the 69th year of his age")

Primary Sources 
 

  • United States Census Schedules, Spotsylvania County, 1870 (age nine on June 5), Dinwiddie County, 1880 (age twenty on June 2), both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

 

  • Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (quotation in Evans to Mahone, November 22, 1888).

 

  • Election result in Election Record no. 24 (1887), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Virginia General Assembly, House of Delegates, Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1887–1888), 74, 75.

 

  • John M. Langston vs. E. C. Venable, 51st Congress, 1st session, 1890, House of Representatives Report 2462, serial 2814, 38–41

 

  • Petersburg Minute Books (1884–1886), 416–417; (1887–1889), 270; (1889–1891), 344–345, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Death Register (age thirty), Petersburg, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.


Secondary Sources 
 

  • Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 15 (with frontispiece portrait).

 

  • William D. Henderson, Gilded Age City: Politics, Life, and Labor in Petersburg, Virginia, 1874–1889 (1980), 112, 141, 172, 215, 226–227.


Newspapers 
 

  • Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, May 4, 1882; May 26, 1882; August 31, 1887; October 15, 1887; October 22, 1887; October 26, 1887; November 2, 1887; November 9, 1887; December 21, 1887; June 21, 1890; June 23, 1890

 

  • Richmond Dispatch, September 15, 1887; December 18, 1889

 

  • Washington, D.C., National Leader, February 2, 1889

 

  • Baltimore Sun, January 27, 1890


Obituaries 
 

  • Death and funeral notices in Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, November 18, 1892; November 19, 1892
Primary Sources
  • Correspondence and curriculum vitae (ca. 1950) with birth date in Presidents Record Group, Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
  • Everett's publications include:
    • "World Religions in the Building of Peace," in Christian O. Arndt and Samuel Everett, eds., Education for a World Society: Promising Practices Today (1951), 63–73
    • "American Culture in the World To-day," American Quarterly 6 (1954): 245–252
    • "The Calling of Teacher-Scholar," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 24 (1965): 395–396

  • Sound recording of excerpts from a Virginia Education Association forum on teaching moral and spiritual values, "Our Schools at the Crossroads," November 28, 1951, WRVA Radio Collection, Accession no. 38210, Business Records Collection, Library of Virginia

Secondary Sources
  • Biography in William Couper, History of the Shenandoah Valley (1952), 3:462–463
  • Who's Who in America, (1966–1967) 34:641 (with first and second marriage dates and divorce)
  • Frances J. Niederer, Hollins College: An Illustrated History, 2d ed. (1985), esp. 142–149

Newspapers and Periodicals
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 12, 1950; April 23 1950; March 15, 1959 (biography); June 9, 1960
  • Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, April 15, 1951
  • Richmond News Leader, January 21, 1959; January 19, 1960
  • New York Times, June 9, 1960; October 19, 1964
  • Commonwealth 17 (June 1950): 25–26; 18 (March 1951): 16–17; 18 (May 1951): 12; 27 (May 1960): 33–34
  • Hollins College Bulletin 10 (April 1960): 1–4

Obituaries
  • New York Times, January 22, 1992
  • Hollins 42 (February 1992): 26
Published Biographies
  • Henry K. Bush-Brown, "Sir Moses Ezekiel: American Sculptor," Art and Archaeology 11 (1921): 227–234.
  • Joseph Gutmann and Stanley F. Chyet, eds., Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Memoirs from the Baths of Diocletian (1975).
  • Stan Cohen and Keith Gibson, Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor (2007).
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Primary Sources
  • Will with birth date in Richmond City Chancery Court Will Book, 17:260–266.
  • Ezekiel correspondence, photographs, and other materials in numerous collections, including:
    • American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.
    • Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    • Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, Richmond, Va.
    • Charles J. Anderson Letters (Accession 29586) and Governor James L. Kemper Letter Book (Accession 35358) and Executive Papers (Accession 43755), Library of Virginia.
    • The Valentine, Richmond, Va.
    • Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.
    • Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.
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Secondary Sources
  • Katharine H. Wrenshall, "An American Sculptor in Rome," World's Work 19 (1909–1910): 12255–12264.
  • Regina Soria, "Moses Ezekiel's Studio in Rome," Archives of American Art Journal 4 (Apr. 1964): 6–9.
  • Alice M. Greenwald and Roberta K. Tarbell, Ezekiel's Vision: Moses Jacob Ezekiel and the Classical Tradition (1985).
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Obituaries
  • New York Times, March 28, 1917
  • Richmond News Leader, March 28, 1917
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 28, 1917
  • Memorial in American Jewish Year Book (1917), 227–232.
  • Memorial in Confederate Veteran 25 (1917): 235–236.
  • Memorial in University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin, 3d ser., 10 (1917): 327–338.
Primary Sources
  • James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (1985)
  • District of Columbia Marriage Register (1946), Clerk of the Superior Court, Washington, D.C., Records Office
  • James Farmer Oral History Interviews, October 1969 and July 20, 1971, transcriptions, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas
  • James Leonard, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
  • James L. Farmer Collection and James L. Farmer Image Collection, both Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
  • James Farmer Lectures, University of Mary Washington, online at jamesfarmerlectures.umwblogs.org (accessed 10 October 2013)
  • James L. Farmer FBI File, Federal Bureau of Investigation Vault, online at vault.fbi.gov (accessed 10 October 2013)
  • James Farmer, "We Cannot Afford to Fail," New York Times, September 29, 1963
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Secondary Sources
  • August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942–1968 (1973)
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Newspapers and Periodicals
  • Feature article in Mary Washington Bullet, September 15, 1994
  • Washington Post, May 5, 1961; May 16, 1961; July 5, 1961
  • Chicago Defender, February 11, 1961; February 15, 1969; December 8, 1970
  • New York Times, July 4, 1965; July 26, 1968
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 16, 1998
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Obituaries
  • Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, July 10, 1999
  • New York Times, July 10, 1999
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 10, 1999
Biographical Information
  • Clayton Beverly Phillips, "Education in Virginia Under Superintendent Richard Ratcliffe Farr, 1882–1886" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1932), including transcriptions of widow's "Summary Life of R. R. Farr" (with birth, marriage, and death dates), some official records, an editorial from a lost issue of the Herndon Wedge, 1 Sept. 1882, and an editorial tribute from an undated clipping of an otherwise unidentified Washington Democrat.
  • S. Bassett French Papers II, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., with widow's "Summary Life of R. R. Farr" and document transcriptions provided by son.
  • Richard Ratcliffe Farr II Manuscripts, Historic Fairfax City, Inc., Fairfax, Va.
  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
  • Wesley E. Pippenger and Dorothy S. Provine, eds., District of Columbia Marriage Records Index, June 28, 1877 to October 19, 1885 (1997), 149.
  • Death Register, Fairfax Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
  • Steven C. Stombres, "The Farr Family Residences: Historic Homes of Local Family Enrich Modern Fairfax City," The Fare Facs Gazette: The Newsletter of Historic Fairfax City, Inc. 5 (Fall 2007): 6–7 (portrait).
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Superintendent of Public Instruction
  • Election as superintendent in Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, 1881–1882 sess., 141, 142.
  • Farr's published Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1882–1885.
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Obituaries
  • Alexandria Gazette, October 11, 1892
  • Washington Post, October 11, 1892; October 14, 1892
  • Richmond Dispatch, October 12, 1892
  • Richmond Times, October 12, 1892
Biographical Information
  • Birth and death dates on gravestone, Barton Heights Cemeteries, Richmond, Virginia
  • Biographical sketch and will in Farrar Family Papers, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
  • Farrar's registration as a free negro in Free Negro Register, 3 December 1850, Albemarle Co. Free Negro and Slave Records, 1796–1870, Library of Virginia
  • 1863 trial record in Richmond City Hustings Court Minute Book 28 (1862–1863): 658, Library of Virginia
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    Educational Activity

    • Minutes of the Richmond Educational Association, 1867–1878, Ralza M. Manly Collection, City Records Office, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, Virginia
    • Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
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    Religious Activity
    • Ebenezer Baptist Church (Richmond City) Records, 1858–1975, Acc. 33482, Library of Virginia
    • Virginia Baptist State Convention Minutes, 1870–1892
    • Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States of America Minutes, 1881–1891
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    Political Activity
    • Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 Oct. 1867, 9 June 1869, 17 June 1869, 25 June 1869
    • Richmond Daily State Journal, 6 January 1871
    • Richmond Whig, 23 March 1886
    • Richmond Dispatch, 18 May 1886, 1 June 1886
    • Richmond Planet, 24 May 1890
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    Obituaries
    • Richmond Dispatch, 10 March 1892, 12 March 1892
    • Richmond Planet, 12 March 1892, 19 March 1892

Primary Sources 
 

  • Birth date of Feb. 8 and age 31 on June 15, 1872 application (no. 4370), Registers of Signatures of Depositors, Freedmen'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, College Park, Maryland.

 

  • Age 29 on July 1, 1870 in United States Census Schedules, Surry Co., 1870; age 39 on June 2, 1880 in United States Census Schedules, Surry Co., 1880; and variant birth date of Feb. 1842 on June 23, 1900 in United States Census Schedules, Surry Co., 1900, all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

 

  • First marriage in Surry Co. Freedman's Marriage Register, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Second marriage in Surry Co. Marriage Licenses (1888), Library of Virginia.

 

  • Third marriage in Surry Co. Marriage Register (1890), Library of Virginia.

 

  • Land and financial transactions recorded in Surry Co. Deed Books 17, 18, 20, 22, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 20 (1885), Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Estate inventory in Surry Co. Will Book, 13:524–525, Library of Virginia.


Secondary Sources 
 

  • Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 16.


Newspapers 
 

  • Richmond Daily State Journal, October 24, 1871

 

  • Richmond Daily Whig, September 28, 1885

 

  • Richmond Dispatch, October 21, November 4, 1891

 

  • Newport News Daily Press, September 23, 1898
Primary Sources
  • George Reese, ed., The Official Papers of Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1758–1768 (1980–1983), with biography in 1:xxxv–xlviii
  • appointment as lieutenant governor in Public Record Office, Colonial Office Papers, 324/51, 115–116, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
  • first record in Virginia in Henry R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), 6:100
  • will, estate inventory, and accounts in York Co. Wills and Inventories, Book 21:396–404 (quotation on 397), Book 22:83–103, Library of Virginia

Secondary Sources
  • G. Woods Wollaston, "The Family of Fauquier," Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 13 (1927): 340–348
  • Nellie Norkus, "Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, 1758–1768: A Study in Colonial Problems" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1954)
  • George Reese, "Portraits of Governor Francis Fauquier," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 76 (1968): 3–10

Obituaries and funeral accounts
  • Williamsburg Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon), March 3, 1768; March 10, 1768
  • Williamsburg Virginia Gazette (Rind), March 3, 1768; March 10, 1768
Primary Sources
  • Age 46 on August 15 and birthplace of Vermont in Census, Essex Co., 1850, United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
  • Fay's correspondence in:
    • Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, China Records (1835–1951), Archives of the Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas
    • Charles Backus Dana Papers, Natchez Trace Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin
    • Church Missionary Society Archive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
    • DeButts Family Papers, 1784–1962 Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia

  • Fay's reports from China in:
    • Godey's Lady's Book 46 (1853): 466
    • New York Observer 47 (1 Apr. 1869): 98
    • Spirit of Missions 23 (1858): 339–342; 37 (1872): 136–138; 39 (1874): 189–193, 389–392, 435–437, 571–572, 633–634; 41 (1876): 47–49, 422–424 (quotation on 422–423); 42 (1877): 411–412; 43 (1878): 278, 316–317

  • Lydia Mary Fay, The Marriage of the Emperor of China . . . (1872)

Secondary Sources
  • Ella Rodman Church, "Life of Lydia Mary Fay," Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine 99 (1879): 530–533
  • Mrs. J. T. [Annie Ryder] Gracey, Eminent Missionary Women (1898), 66–70
  • Annette B. Richmond, The American Episcopal Church in China (1907), 21, 41, 47, 53, 70–71, 136, 150, 154
  • Arthur R. Gray and Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China (1913), 55–57, 81

Obituaries
  • Shanghai North-China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Circular, October 17, 1878
  • Alexandria Southern Churchman, November 28, 1878
  • memorials in Spirit of Missions 44 (1879): 36–40, 120–121

Primary Sources 
 

  • Petersburg Marriage Bonds and Licenses (with age 38 on December 30, 1868 and birthplace of Louisiana), Library of Virginia

 

  • Census, Petersburg, 1870 (age 42 on August 9, 1870 and birthplace of Louisiana), 1880 (age 50 on June 12, 1880 and birthplace of Louisiana), United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

 

  • 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," 27

 

  • Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), especially 39–40, 133, 157, 207, 244, 666

 

  • Will and estate inventory in Petersburg Hustings Court Will Book, 7:433–434, 10:233, 244–245, Library of Virginia

 

  • Death Register, Petersburg (with birthplace of Jamaica and death date of October 24, 1890), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia

 

  • Variant death date of October 20, 1890 on gravestone inscription, Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia


Secondary Sources 
 

  • Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 16 (with birth year of 1830, variant death date of 1891, and undocumented middle initial L.)

 

  • William D. Henderson, The Unredeemed City: Reconstruction in Petersburg, Virginia, 1865–1874 (1977)

 

  • William D. Henderson, Gilded Age City: Politics, Life and Labor in Petersburg, Virginia, 1874–1889 (1980)


Newspapers 
 

  • Petersburg Index, April 9, 1867; April 12, 1867 (misidentified as William); October 28, 1871; May 23, 1873

 

  • Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 18, 1867 (surname appears as Faysman and as Ferryman); April 19, 1867; August 2, 1867; November 26, 1869

 

  • Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, May 7, 1868

 

  • Petersburg Daily Appeal, July 2, 1873

 

  • Petersburg Index and Appeal, July 2, 1875

 

  • Richmond Daily Whig, March 16, 1881; March 18, 1881; August 11, 1881


Obituaries 
 

  • Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, October 27, 1890 (birth "near Montiego bay in the island of Jamaica" in 1830 and variant death date of "Friday night," October 24, 1890)
Primary Sources
  • Autobiographical information, including alumnus data forms (1940, 1944, 1945) in Deceased Alumni Files, RG-24/11/12.061, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Family and personal information confirmed by nephew, B. Parker Livingston Jr. (2008)
  • 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, Arlington County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
  • Charles Rogers Fenwick Papers, Accession no. 9857, and letters in several other collections, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Eastman-Fenwick Family Papers, Record Group 60, Arlington Community Archives, Center for Local History, Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, Virginia
  • Correspondence and other materials in C. Harrison Mann, Jr., Digital Collection, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
  • Information on 1945 primary in James Howe Latimer Papers, Accession no. 37623 (including notes and draft for article in Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 17, 1989), Library of Virginia
  • James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008).

Secondary Sources
  • Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass, Jr., Virginia Democracy: A History of the Achievements of the Party and Its Leaders in the Mother of Commmonwealths, the Old Dominion (1937), 3:27–28
  • Robert Lee Morton, Virginia Lives: The Old Dominion’s Who’s Who, 319–320 (with variant marriage date of December 28, 1929)

Newspapers
  • Account of wedding in Washington Post, December 15, 1929
  • Coverage of 1945 primary for the Democrats’ lieutenant governor nomination in Richmond News Leader, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Washington Post, August–September 1945, with judge's full opinion in Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 30, 1945
  • Coverage of 1953 primary for the Democrats' gubernatorial nomination in Richmond News Leader and Richmond Times-Dispatch, January–July 1953
  • Feature on 1945 primary race in Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dec. 17, 1989

Obituaries
  • Richmond News Leader, February 22, 1969
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 23, 1969
  • Washington Post, February 23, 1969
  • Arlington Northern Virginia Sun, February 24, 1969 (with editorial tribute); February 25, 1969 (with account of funeral)
  • Memorial in Journal of the Senate of Virginia, 1969 extra session, 25–26
  • Memorial in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1969), 381–382
Primary Sources
  • Campaign biography in E. A. Allen, The Life and Public Services of James Baird Weaver. . .To Which is Added The Life and Public Services of James G. Field. . . (1892), 121–130 (middle name spelled Gaven).
  • Marriage Registers, Albemarle County (1854) and Lynchburg (1882; with middle name spelled Gaven), both in Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
  • 1877 election in Election Record No. 30, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
  • Field's annual reports and opinions printed in Annual Report of the Attorney-General of the State of Virginia, 1877–1881.
  • Albemarle County Will Book, 31:60–62, Library of Virginia.
  • Field correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Scattered Field correspondence in collections at Library of Virginia (esp. May 6, 1861, letter to Richard Henry Field in John Letcher Executive Papers, 1859–1863, Accession 36787) and Virginia Historical Society, both Richmond, Virginia; Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Secondary Sources
  • Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy . . . (1901), 2:1139–1141 (with birth date and variant spelling of middle name as Gavin).
  • William DuBose Sheldon, Populism in the Old Dominion: Virginia Farm Politics, 1885–1900 (1935).
  • John H. Moore, "James Gaven Field, Populist Candidate for the Vice-Presidency," Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society 11 (1950–1951): 19–36.
  • John H. Moore, "James Gaven Field: Virginia's Populist Spokesman," Virginia Cavalcade 9 (spring 1960): 35–41 (portrait on 35).
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Newspapers and Periodicals
  • Biography in Southern Planter and Farmer 38 (1877): 752–753.
  • Quotation in Washington Post, July 16, 1892.
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Obituaries
  • Charlottesville Daily Progress, May 19, 1902
  • Richmond Dispatch, May 20, 1902
  • Richmond Times, May 20, 1902
  • Washington Post, May 20, 1902
  • Culpeper Exponent, May 23, 1902
  • Memorial in Baptist General Association of Virginia Minutes (1902), 74–75.