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Sources consulted for the biography of:John Bryce Syphax ( –d. 1916)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, District of Columbia, 1860 (age twenty-two), Alexandria County, 1880 (age forty-one), and Brooklyn, New York, 1900 (with birth date of March 1839), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 6 (1873), 13 (1877), and 117 (1882), Record Group 13, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Marriage at age forty-five in Manhattan Marriage Records, New York City Municipal Archives.
- Alexandria Co. Deed Book N4:504–506.
- Date of death at age eighty-one, middle name, and variant Cornelius as father in Death Records, Brooklyn, Kings, New York City Municipal Archives.
Secondary Sources
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 41 (with 1835 year of birth), portrait on 52.
- "Some Black History in Arlington County: A Preliminary Investigation," Arlington Historical Magazine 5, no. 1 (1973): 15–16.
- Dorothea E. Abbott, "The Land of Maria Syphax and the Abbey Mausoleum," Arlington Historical Magazine 7, no. 4 (1984): 64–79.
- Joseph P. Reidy, "'Coming From the Shadow of the Past': The Transition from Slavery to Freedom at Freedmen's Village, 1863–1900," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 95 (1987): 403–428, esp. 425–426.
Newspapers
- Political career covered in Alexandria Gazette (1870s–1890s), esp. June 4, 1877 (second quotation); Oct. 31, 1885 (third quotation); Mar. 20, 1886 (fourth quotation); May 4, 1887.
- Political career covered in Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1890s–1910s), esp. Oct. 20, 1908 (fifth quotation); Mar. 19, 1909.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Apr. 10, 1874; Aug. 20, 1875.
- Richmond Enquirer, Aug. 22, 1875 (first quotation).
- Washington Post, Jan. 29, 1879; Oct. 19, 1882; July 16, 1883.
- Wilmington, Del., Evening Journal, Oct. 20, 1892.
Obituary
- Death notice in Washington, D.C., Evening Star, Sept. 8, 1916.
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