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Sources consulted for the biography of:Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis (1851–1946)
Primary Sources
- John William Leonard, ed., Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914–1915 (1914), 433.
- Marriage Register, Lynchburg, and Death Certificate, Lynchburg, both in Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS), Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Lewis's annual reports as president of the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage League and numerous letters are in Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records, Accession 22002, Library of Virginia.
- Correspondence in Adèle Goodman Clark Papers, Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
- Correspondence in Lila Meade Valentine Papers, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
- Quotation in Virginia Suffrage News 1 (Nov. 1914): 13.
Secondary Sources
- Feature article in Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 9, 1942.
- Feature article in Roanoke World-News, July 21, 1973.
- Virginius Cornick Hall, Jr. comp., Portraits in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society: A Catalogue (1981), 149.
- Brief biography in James M. Elson, Lynchburg, Virginia: The First Two Hundred Years, 1786–1986 (2004), 333–335.
Obituaries
- Lynchburg Daily Advance, January 31, 1946.
- Lynchburg News, January 31, 1946.
- Editorial tribute in Lynchburg Daily Advance, January 31, 1946.
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