J. Gregory Smith/Bibliography

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	A list of key readings about J. Gregory Smith.

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Primary Sources[edit]

Smith Family Papers, Vermont Farm Bureau Papers, The Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont Libraries Special Collections, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

Contains mostly familial and political correspondence

J. Gregory Smith (1818-1891) Papers, 1810-1928, (bulk 1845-1899), Leahy Library, Vermont Historical Society, Barre, Vermont.

Contains a lot of Smith's business correspondence

Vermont Central Railroad Records, 1849-1880, Leahy Library, Vermont Historical Society, Barre, Vermont.

Secondary Sources[edit]

Dowden, Albert Ricker. "John Gregory Smith." Vermont History 32, no. 2 (April 1964): 78-97.

Dowden's article deals mostly with Smith's political career to the end of the Civil War and has almost nothing about his business career afterwards.

Lubetkin, M. John. Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

Lubetkin details the troublesome nature of Smith as president of one failing railroad (the CV) and one ambitious project just starting (the NP).

Encyclopedic sources[edit]

National Governors Association, "John Gregory Smith," 2015.

Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 8. New York: James T. White & Company.

Ullery, Jacob G., Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, Part I, p. 96.