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Sources consulted for the biography of:William R. Dickey (1823–1903)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates from gravestone inscription, provided by Grayson Heritage Foundation (2008).
- Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
- United States Census Schedules, Grayson Co., 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Fragments of personal, family, and business history in Grayson Co. Deed Book, 10, 11, 16, 18, 30, Library of Virginia.
- Endorsements Sent, June 1866–August 1867, Wytheville (subassistant commissioner), Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Election Record no. 427 (1867), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 28, 389.
- Records of Appointment of Postmasters, Virginia, Grayson County, Post Office Department, Record Group 28, National Archives and Record Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Grayson County Will Book, 9:248–249, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls, Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia (1914), 183.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 355.
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 481.
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