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A list of key readings about J. Gregory Smith.
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Primary Sources

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

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

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.