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Sources consulted for the biography of:Henry Clay Harris ( –d. after October 1905)
Biographical Information
- Brief biography with age thirty-four in Richmond Daily Dispatch, Aug. 20, 1875.
- Father identified in A. K. Brown to O. O. Howard, Apr. 11, 1867, Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Mother identified in Betsy Harris et al. v. Henry C. Harris et al., Buckingham Co. Chancery Court Order Book 1:43–45.
- Account of Harris as a census enumerator (mistakenly identified as working in Goochland County) in David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in '61 and Afterward (1912), 158–160.
- Roanoke Times, Sept. 17, 1891 (misidentified as of Charlotte County).
- Employees in the Department of Justice, 1897, 54th Cong., 2d sess., House of Rep. Doc. No. 160.
- Last known reference to Harris in Halifax Co. Deed Book 100: 262–263.
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 20.
Political Career
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 6 (1873), 10 (1875), and 44 (1899), Record Group 13, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874 sess.), 41, 51, 57, 61, 67, 207, 442.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874–1875 sess.), 332.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 23, 1870; Nov. 3, 1875.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, Jan. 6, 1874 (quotation).
- Richmond Daily Whig, Mar. 18, 1881.
- Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 27, 1899.
- Richmond Dispatch, Nov. 9, 1899.
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