Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

John Baylor

Published Biographies
  • Philip Alexander Bruce, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and Richard L. Morton, History of Virginia (1924), 4:133–134.

  • Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass Jr., Virginia Democracy (1937), 2:392–393.

  • John Edward Lane III, "Leon Maurice Bazile" in Legal Education in Virginia, 1779–1979, A Biographical Approach, ed. W. Hamilton Bryson (1982), 83–86.

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Primary Sources
  • Birth date in Birth Register, Hanover Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS), Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

  • Marriage date in Register of Marriages, Richmond City, BVS.

  • Death Certificate, Hanover Co., BVS.

  • Leon M. Bazile Papers, including legal memorandum on school closing, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.

  • First quotation in Washington Post, July 23, 1950.

  • School bond ruling reported in Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 3, 1955, and in County School Board of Hanover County v. Samuel W. Shelton (1956), Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 198:226–230.

  • Second quotation in Loving et ux. v. Virginia (1967), Cases Adjudicated in the Supreme Court of the United States 388:1–13.

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Selected Publications
  • Bazile, "Hanover County," Virginia and the Virginia County 6 (June 1952): 11–13, 58, 60.

  • William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 5 (1948): 417–419.

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Obituaries
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 19, 1967

  • Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, March 20, 1967

  • Richmond News Leader, March 20, 1967

  • Ashland Herald Progress, March 23, 1967

  • Memorial in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association (1967), 275–279.

Primary Sources
  • Birth date and place on passport application (June 26, 1890), General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  • Marriage Register, Alexandria County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

  • Alexandria Union Association Minute Book (1861–1866), first quotation from minutes of Oct. 2, 1861, Accession 14051, Library of Virginia.

  • 1861 election to Congress in S. Ferguson Beach, 37th Congress, 2d session, House of Representatives Report No. 42, serial 1144.

  • Journal of the Constitutional Convention which Convened at Alexandria on the 13th Day of February, 1864 (Alexandria, 1864).

  • Letters between Beach and Attorney General William M. Evarts concerning the trial of Jefferson Davis in Records of the Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Record Group 60, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

  • Some Beach correspondence in the Papers of Matthew F. Pleasants and the Papers of William H. Barry, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. (microfilm available at the Library of Virginia, Accession 41008).

  • Erroneous death date (February 1, 1893) and place in Death Register, Alexandria City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

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Secondary Sources
  • Sara B. Bearss, "Restored and Vindicated: The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1864," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 122 (2014): 156–181.

  • Anthony J. Gaughan, The Last Battle of the Civil War: United States versus Lee, 1861–1883 (2011).

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Newspapers
  • New-York Daily Tribune, October 4, 1864

  • Daily Richmond Whig, July 6, 1865 (second quotation)

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Obituaries
  • Alexandria Gazette, Sept. 16, 1893 (with death date and place)

  • Memorial in Report of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association (1893), 450–452.