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Sources consulted for the biography of:Daniel Webster Davis (1862–1913)
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- Daniel Webster Davis Papers (including correspondence, typescripts of speeches, unpublished poems, and printed funeral program with birth date), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.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.
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.
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
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