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A single source used multiple times is still considered one source. There is content and other references for Mr Bowles. He was appointed by the General assembly of Virginia as Commissioner for subscriptions (pp 235; 1836-37 for sure) of the Peru Ridge Mining Company in Goochland County, I suppose while he was a judge.
Additional source concerning appointment as a Convention Delegate in 1850: A History of Virginia Conventions, Volume 62, pp 50; by Jacob Neff Brenaman, and as a judge Livingston's United States Law Register, and Official Directory pp 940; by John Livingston. I am sure as a prominent member of Fluvanna County, especially before and after the Civil War, and his public record, some mention of this could be placed in the Fluvanna County article, linking the articles, as well as providing content and referencing there. Otr500 (talk) 22:47, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks. This suggestion opens up an entirely new level of hobby at Wikipedia that had not occurred to me, that of returning to the start class articles for the "Charts of delegates" in the nine conventions featured in the main article Virginia Conventions once the first pass is completed, and enlarging them, or at least strengthening them as encyclopedia articles with multiple sources. Though most are not so glamorous as Bowles chartering a gold mining company through the General Assembly, most are mentioned on genealogy and graveyard sites, or in the biographies of other prominent Virginians. Many from the Conventions of 1776, 1788, and 1830 were correspondents with Thomas Jefferson, and can be found by a Google search in his papers catalogued online.
Not to be defensive, but
Pulliam is listed in William Hamilton Bryson’s “Virginia Law Books: essays and bibliographies, volume 239” (2000) on page 235, and
David L. Pulliam, Jacob N. Brenaman and William J. Van Schreeven are referenced as reliable sources for “comprehensive analyses of Virginia Conventions” by the Constitutional scholar John J. Dinan in his Biographical Essay in his “The Virginia Constitution: a reference guide, part 56.” (2006) page 231.
I think these stubs are a great thing, historically important, and it is even better when there is other information "out there" for expansion. Please don't think I am questioning the reliability of the sources you have used. I was just checking to see if there were "other sources", recording things I ran across, as well as looking at "what links here, for possible linking to other articles.
I didn't dig concerning the source about being a member of the House of Delegates, from "December 7, 1857 to April 8, 1858", so is that something "extra"? Hopefully I will get my failed laptop situation solved in the next couple of days. Otr500 (talk) 04:02, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your encouragement. For a second source relating to these notable Virginians, just yesterday I obtained a copy of "The Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776-1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions" published by the General Assembly (1918), authored by Earl Gregg Swem, the assistant state librarian, and John W. Williams, the Clerk of the House of Delegates. It is republished in a "Scholar select" series by Wentworth Press (August 27, 2016). Swem is memorialized in the Earl Greg Swem central library at the College of William and Mary, my alma mater.
I hope that this second source will strengthen these start class articles in the eyes of most editors. Various topic sentences suggest additional expansion expected of C-class and B-class articles, but none of these should be subject to speedy deletion as stubs may be.
So the alphabetical index of members notes that Drury W. K. Bowles was not only a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850, but also elected to the House of Delegates for the one year sessions 1857/1858, 1865/1866 and 1866/1867 on page 350. Apparently the sessions then met over the New Year's Day, December to April, whereas now they are held in spring and summer months for a term of two successive years. We can link the last two sessions to Virginia's Presidential Reconstruction. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:31, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
