Archives of Maryland
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William Lingan Gaither (1813-1858)
MSA SC 3520-1594

Primary Sources:

Ancestry.com. 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line], accessed 4 September 2013. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls.

ELECTORAL COLLEGE (Maryland Proceedings), 1844-1848, MSA S81-1, vol. 208, p.95. See also p.89, 90, 2. Proceedings of the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HOUSE (Journal), 1860, MdHR 821075-1, vol.660, p.289.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SENATE (Journal of Proceedings) 1860, MdHR 812274, vol.849 p.180-1.

Maryland Board of Public Works Minutes, 1851-1883, MdHR 12683 1/2, p.31, 32, 43.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate Record), 1859-1860, MSA CM740-35, bk. JWS #2, p.256, 391.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate Record), 1860, MSA CM740-36, bk. JWS #5, p.73.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), 1858, MSA T1736-1, bk. JWS#1, p.12.

Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Secondary Sources:

Farquhar, Roger Brooke, Historic Montgomery County Maryland, Old Homes and History. Silver Spring, MD: 1952, p.245.

Legislative History Project Collection, William Lingan Gaither (1813-1858) Biographical File, MSA SC 1138-001-1594.

Maryland Historical Trust. Inventory of Historic Properties: Montgomery County, "Sundown Hills Farm," March 1986.

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, ed., Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888, p.573.

Newspapers/Journal Articles:

"The Whigs of Maryland," National Aegis (Worchester, MA), 21 February 1844.

"Whig Gubernatorial Convention," American and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore, MD), 8 March 1850.

"Painting for the Old Senate Chamber," Annapolis Gazette, 29 January 1857.

"Death of Senator Gaither," Sun (Baltimore, MD), 4 August 1858.

"Death of Senator Gaither," Philidelphia Inquirer, 5 August 1858.

"Death of Gen. Wm. Lingan Gaither," Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), 5 August 1858.

"Death of Senator Gaither," Annapolis Gazette, 5 August 1858.

"Death of Gen. Wm. Lingan Gaither," Charleston Courier (Charleston, SC), 6 August 1858.

"The Late Gen. Gaither," Montgomery Sentinel, 27 August 1858, MSA SC2813 M475-3.

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