The Dictionary of Virginia Biography is published online through a partnership with Encyclopedia Virginia. Biographies that do not also appear in the three print volumes (surnames Aaroe�Daniels) link to lists of sources consulted.
Sources consulted for the biography of:George Fayerman ( –1890)
Primary Sources
- Petersburg Marriage Bonds and Licenses (with age 38 on December 30, 1868 and birthplace of Louisiana), Library of Virginia
- Census, Petersburg, 1870 (age 42 on August 9, 1870 and birthplace of Louisiana), 1880 (age 50 on June 12, 1880 and birthplace of Louisiana), United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Election results in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the Result for the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," 27
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), especially 39–40, 133, 157, 207, 244, 666
- Will and estate inventory in Petersburg Hustings Court Will Book, 7:433–434, 10:233, 244–245, Library of Virginia
- Death Register, Petersburg (with birthplace of Jamaica and death date of October 24, 1890), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Variant death date of October 20, 1890 on gravestone inscription, Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 16 (with birth year of 1830, variant death date of 1891, and undocumented middle initial L.)
- William D. Henderson, The Unredeemed City: Reconstruction in Petersburg, Virginia, 1865–1874 (1977)
- William D. Henderson, Gilded Age City: Politics, Life and Labor in Petersburg, Virginia, 1874–1889 (1980)
Newspapers
- Petersburg Index, April 9, 1867; April 12, 1867 (misidentified as William); October 28, 1871; May 23, 1873
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 18, 1867 (surname appears as Faysman and as Ferryman); April 19, 1867; August 2, 1867; November 26, 1869
- Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, May 7, 1868
- Petersburg Daily Appeal, July 2, 1873
- Petersburg Index and Appeal, July 2, 1875
- Richmond Daily Whig, March 16, 1881; March 18, 1881; August 11, 1881
Obituaries
- Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, October 27, 1890 (birth "near Montiego bay in the island of Jamaica" in 1830 and variant death date of "Friday night," October 24, 1890)
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