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Sources consulted for the biography of:Robert J. Boland (1850–1918)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates on gravestone, Williams Memorial Park Cemetery, Roanoke, Virginia.
- Board of Medical Examiners, Minutes and Results of Examinations (1884–1902), 34, Record Group 37, Library of Virginia.
- First marriage in Wayne Co. Return of Marriages, 1886, Michigan Marriage Records, 1867–1952, and first wife's death in Wayne Co. Return of Deaths, 1895, both in Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics.
- Second marriage in Wythe Co. Marriage Register 3:128.
- Third marriage in New Hanover Co., North Carolina, Marriage License.
- Roanoke City directories, 1891–1892, 1895, 1912.
- Death date with variant burial place of Old Lick Cemetery in Death Certificate, Roanoke City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Boland's estate inventory and appraisal in records of Commissioner of Accounts, 13:445, Roanoke City Circuit Court.
Secondary Sources
- Leslie L. Hanawalt, "From Slave to Physician: Robert J. Boland (1850–1918)," Detroit in Perspective: A Journal of Regional History 2 (1976): 189–203.
- Family information provided by Gladys L. Cox (1991).
Obituaries
- Obituary with erroneous death date of Nov. 17, 1918, and account of funeral with burial in Midway Cemetery in Richmond Planet, November 23, 1918.
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