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Sources consulted for the biography of:Henry Turpin (1836–1908)
Biographical and Family Information
- Biography in Luther P. Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), p. 42, (occupation given as carpenter), portrait on p. 30.
- Family history in Augustus Turpin Granger, "Edwin Turpin of Goochland County, Virginia," Goochland County Historical Society Magazine 25 (1993): 21–28, and documented in Creditors of Edwin Turpin v. Administrator of Edwin Turpin, Goochland Co. Chancery Causes, 1902-004, Library of Virginia.
- Birth date in Goochland Co. Free Negro Register, 429.
- Goochland Co. Deed Book, 38:167–168 (emancipation); 40:494–495 (land purchase).
- U.S. Census Schedules, Goochland Co., 1860 and 1870, and New York Co. (Bronx Borough), 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Parents' names, death date, burial place, and age seventy-two in Bronx Death Certificate, New York City Department of Health.
Political Career
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 24, 1871; October 11, 1873.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, October 25, 1871; February 28, 1872; October 10, 1873.
- Richmond Daily Whig, October 28, 1871.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 3 (1871) and no. 2 (1873), Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Report of contested election in Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1871–72 (1872), 47, 212–214.
- Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, at its Session of 1871–'72 (1872), 441 (quotation).
Obituary
- Death notice in Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 20, 1908 (with erroneous death date of September 6, 1908).
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