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Sources consulted for the biography of:James Gaven Field (1826–1902)
Primary Sources
- Campaign biography in E. A. Allen, The Life and Public Services of James Baird Weaver. . .To Which is Added The Life and Public Services of James G. Field. . . (1892), 121–130 (middle name spelled Gaven).
- Marriage Registers, Albemarle County (1854) and Lynchburg (1882; with middle name spelled Gaven), both in Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- 1877 election in Election Record No. 30, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Field's annual reports and opinions printed in Annual Report of the Attorney-General of the State of Virginia, 1877–1881.
- Albemarle County Will Book, 31:60–62, Library of Virginia.
- Field correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
- Scattered Field correspondence in collections at Library of Virginia (esp. May 6, 1861, letter to Richard Henry Field in John Letcher Executive Papers, 1859–1863, Accession 36787) and Virginia Historical Society, both Richmond, Virginia; Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy . . . (1901), 2:1139–1141 (with birth date and variant spelling of middle name as Gavin).
- William DuBose Sheldon, Populism in the Old Dominion: Virginia Farm Politics, 1885–1900 (1935).
- John H. Moore, "James Gaven Field, Populist Candidate for the Vice-Presidency," Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society 11 (1950–1951): 19–36.
- John H. Moore, "James Gaven Field: Virginia's Populist Spokesman," Virginia Cavalcade 9 (spring 1960): 35–41 (portrait on 35).
Newspapers and Periodicals
- Biography in Southern Planter and Farmer 38 (1877): 752–753.
- Quotation in Washington Post, July 16, 1892.
Obituaries
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, May 19, 1902
- Richmond Dispatch, May 20, 1902
- Richmond Times, May 20, 1902
- Washington Post, May 20, 1902
- Culpeper Exponent, May 23, 1902
- Memorial in Baptist General Association of Virginia Minutes (1902), 74–75.
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