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Sources consulted for the biography of:Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis Otey (1880–1974)
Primary Sources
- John William Leonard, ed., Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914–1915 (1914), 614 (with birth date).
- Lynchburg City Marriage Register, Lynchburg.
- Death Certificate, Lynchburg, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health.
- Elizabeth L. Lewis Otey Genealogy Collection, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg.
- Some correspondence in Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records, Accession 22002, Library of Virginia.
- Some correspondence in Adèle Goodman Clark Papers, Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
- Quotation in Lynchburg News, March 18, 1920.
- Oral history interview of Elizabeth L. Otey by Charlotte Shelton, August 7, 1973, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Election Records
- 1921 election return in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth…for the Year Ending September 30, 1921 (1922), 423–424.
- 1931 election return in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 232, Accession 26040, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- 1933 election return in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth…for the Year Ending June 30, 1934 (1934), 332.
Secondary Sources
- Feature article in Roanoke World-News, July 21, 1973 (with portrait).
- Brief biography in Sandra L. Singer, Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868–1915 (2003), 140–141.
- Brief biography in James M. Elson, Lynchburg, Virginia: The First Two Hundred Years, 1786–1986 (2004), 334–335.
Obituaries
- Lynchburg Daily Advance, March 1, 1974.
- Editorial tribute in Lynchburg News, March 2, 1974.
- Editorial tribute in Lynchburg Daily Advance, March 4, 1974.
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