William Cabell Rives (1793–1868)
William Cabell Rives was born on 4 May 1793 at Union Hill, his grandfather’s James River plantation in what is now Nelson County, Virginia. Following his expulsion from the College of William and Mary over an affair of honor, he studied law with Thomas Jefferson, and was admitted to the bar in 1814.
"William Cabell Rives." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310004664/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=2930f396. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.
"Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 6 August 1809," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0330. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, p. 416.]
"William Cabell Rives (1793–1868)," Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
"Descendants of William Cabell Rives," Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
"Rives, William Cabell (1793–1868)," in Holly C. Shuman, ed., The Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
William Cabell Rives at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
William Cabell Rives at Find a Grave.
William Cabell Rives at FamilySearch.