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Sources consulted for the biography of:Westmoreland Delaware Davis (1859–1942)
Biographies
- Mitchell C. Harrison, comp., New York State's Prominent and Progressive Men: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography (1900), 2:91–92 (with Paris birthplace).
- Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass Jr., Virginia Democracy (1937), 1:315–318.
- National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1891–1984), 37:510–511 (with marriage date).
- Jack Temple Kirby, Westmoreland Davis: Virginia Planter-Politician, 1859–1942 (1968).
Primary Sources
- Matriculation record signed W. D. Davis, Virginia Military Institute Archives, Lexington, Va.
- Westmoreland Davis Papers, (including mother's genealogical notes with Paris birthplace), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Westmoreland Davis Letters, 1922, Accession 27881, Library of Virginia.
- Westmoreland Davis Papers, 1912–1931, Accession 40224, Library of Virginia.
- Westmoreland Davis Executive Papers, 1918–1922, Record Group 3, Accession 21567a, Library of Virginia (online finding aid).
Secondary Source
- Carolyn Green, Morley: The Intimate Story of Virginia's Governor & Mrs. Westmoreland Davis, ed. John T. Phillips II (1998), an imagined autobiography of Davis's widow.
Obituaries
- Richmond News Leader, September 2, 1942; September 3 1942
- Leesburg Loudoun Times-Mirror, September 3, 1942
- New York Times, September 3, 1942
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 3, 1942
- Washington Post, September 3, 1942
- Memorial in Southern Planter 103 (Oct. 1942): 8
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