Robert H. Whittaker ( –d. 1905)

Biographical Information

• United States Census Schedules, Brunswick Co., 1870 (age forty-one, born in Virginia), 1880 (age forty-six, born in North Carolina), 1900 (age fifty-five, born March 1845 in Virginia), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Brunswick Co. Deed Books, 42:693–694, 44:23–24, 103–104, 155–156, 45:279, 365–366 46:200–201, 47:351 (third quotation), 445, 49:43, 539 (fourth quotation).
• Brunswick Co. Release Deed Book, 1:17.
• N. L. Claiborne et al. v. R. H. Whittaker et al., Brunswick Co. Chancery Cause, 1913-007, Library of Virginia.
• Brief biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 43.

Political Career

• Petersburg Index, June 1, 1871.
• Richmond Daily State Journal, Aug. 23, 1873; Jan. 9, 1874 (first quotation).
• Washington, D.C., New National Era, Aug. 6, 1874 (second quotation).
• Richmond Daily Dispatch, Sept. 1, 1873; Aug. 20, 1875; Feb. 3, 1876.
• Petersburg Index and Appeal, Oct. 24, 1877.
• Richmond Daily Whig, March 18, 1881.
• Brunswick Co. Order Book, 40:268
• Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Election Record No. 6 (1873) and No. 10 (1875), Record Group 13, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874 sess.), 41, 126.
• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874–1875 sess.), 332, 344.
• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1875–1876 sess.), 49, 366.

Obituary

• Brief obituary in unidentified newspaper clipping dated only Sept. 8, reporting death "last night" at age "about seventy" and another obituary of a Brunswick Co. woman who is known to have died on 2 Sept. 1905, Dictionary of Virginia Biography research files, Library of Virginia.

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