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Sources consulted for the biography of:William H. Jordan (1860 or 1861 –d. after 1889 )
Biographical Information
- United States Census Schedules, Petersburg, 1870 (age nine) and 1880 (age nineteen), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Petersburg Deed Book, 46:337–339.
- Petersburg Hustings Court Minute Book, 1887–1889, 135 (first quotation).
- Huntsville [Ala.] Gazette, August 27, 1887.
- Personal Property Tax Returns, Petersburg, 1881 (first listed at age twenty-one)–1889 (last included), Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Biography with birth in Petersburg in 1860 and northern career as railway mail clerk and lawyer in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 24.
Political Career
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 19 (1885), State Government Records Collection, Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1885–1886 sess.), 33–34, 75, 129.
- Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia (1885–1886 sess.), 34–35.
- John M. Langston v. E. C. Venable, 51st Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives Report 2462 (U.S. Serial Set 2814), 38.
- William D. Henderson, Gilded Age City: Politics, Life and Labor in Petersburg, Virginia, 1874–1889 (1980), 193–194, 197, 219.
Newspapers
- Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, September 29, 1885 (second quotation); September 30, 1885; October 6, 1885; October 10, 1885; November 8, 1886.
- Richmond Dispatch, November 4, 1885, July 8, 1886.
- Alexandria Gazette, April 1, 1887.
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