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:Henry Johnson (1842–1922)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates, parents' names (father's name given as James Johnson), and burial in Death Certificate, Amelia County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Family data in United States Census Schedules, Amelia County, 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Amelia County Deed Books 48, 51, and 53, Library of Virginia
- Amelia County Land Tax Returns, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia
- County office holding documented in Amelia County Order Books 48, 49, 50, and 52, Library of Virginia
- 1889 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, no. 66, Accession 26040, State Government Records Collecion, Library of Virginia
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1889–90 (1890), esp. 41, 175
Secondary Sources
- Brief biography (father's name given as David Johnson) in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 22.
Newspapers
- Richmond Dispatch, October 1, 1889; December 18, 1889
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