Wade, Thomas (1720 – 1786)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Ward, Alfred Decatur (1859 - 1940)

• Connor, R.D.W. NC Manual...1913, 261-262.
• Connor, R.D.W. NC Manual...1915, 314. 
  
• Henderson, Archibald, ed. North Carolina: The Old North State and the New, 5:245-2246.
• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:316-317.
• North Carolina Manual, 1913, p. 261-262. 
• North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth, 4: 616-617, port.
• Nunn, R.A. Memorial Address on Hon. Alfred Decatur Ward, Monday, 13 May, 1940, During the Term of the Superior Court of Craven County, Before the Craven County Bar Association. Np:nd, ca. 1940.
  

Ward, David Livingstone (1860- ?)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:27, port. 
  

Ward, Kennedy Wooten (1930 - 1999)

• Powell, William S. North Carolina Lives, 1271.
  

Ward, William Farrior (1893 - ?)

• North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth, 4:176-177.

Warren, Thomas Davis (1872 - ?)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:216.
  

Washington, William Henry (1813-1860)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Waters, Samuel Blackwell (1835 - )

• Confederate Military History, Extended Edition (Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1987), 5:787-788. 
  

Watson, Alfred Augustin (1818 - 1905)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
  
• Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century, 2:308-309. 

Weeks, Alfred Leonard Edward (1875 - ?)

• History of the American Negro. North Carolina Edition. (Atlanta: A.B. Caldwell Pub. Co., 1921), 4: 203-206, port.

Wetherington, Henry Willis (1883-1964)

• Hughes, Joseph Henry. Henry Willis Wetherington, Timber Company Man, 1883-1964. New Bern, N.C.: author, 2008

Wetherington, Luke H. (1916-1993)

• Cahoon, Cecil, II. A Chosen Vessel: The Luke H. Wetherington Story. Mount Olive, N.C.: Mount Olive College Press, 1992.
  

White, Archie Bell (b. 1924)

• Who's Who in North Carolina 1973, 175.

White, George Henry (1852-1918)

• American National Biography
• Black Americans in Congress, 228-233, port.
• Bryan, Dorothy Hawkins. "The Political Career of George Henry White: North Carolinian, 1880-1901." Thesis, North Carolina College, Durham, N.C., 1963.
  
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography 
• Harkin, Judy Hardin. "A Life Well Lived: George Henry White" Journal of the New Bern Historical Society (November 2006): 3-14, port.
  
• Justesen, Benjamin R. George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 2001. 
  
• Justesen, Benjamin R. "George Henry White, Josephus Daniels, and the Showdown over Disfranchisement, 1900" North Carolina Historical Review (January 2000): 1-33.
• Justesen, Benjamin R. In His Own Words: The Writings, Speeches, and Letters of George Henry White. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2004.
• Paths Toward Freedom: A Biographical History of Blacks and Indians in North Carolina, 196.
• Simmons, William J. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Cleveland, Ohio: George W. Rewell & Co., 1887, 536-537, online at http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/simmons/simmons.html. 

Whitehurst, Henry Clay (1844 - ?)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:245-246.

Whitehurst, Henry P. (1887 - ?)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:347.

Whitehurst, Robert Emmet (1889 - ?)

• Henderson, Archibald, ed. North Carolina: The Old North State and the New, 4:102-103.
• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:246.
  
• North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth, 4:126-127, port.

Whitehurst, Thomas Bayard (1886 - ?)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:246.

Whitford, Addison P. (1844-1934)

• Whitford, Addison P. "Memories of the Civil War 1860-1865 as told by Addison P. Whitford to his Grandson Larry A. Whitford 1910-1940" Journal of the New Bern Historical Society (November 1991): 28-36.

Whitford, Gilbert Arthur (1876-1951)

• Connor, R.D.W. NC Manual...1913, 285. 
• Connor, R.D.W. NC Manual...1915, 350. 
  

Whitford, John Dalton (1825 – 1910)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Whitford, John Nathaniel (1835 – 1890)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Allardice, Bruce S. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register (Columbia, MO: U of Missouri Press, 2008), 394.
  

Willard, Martin Stevenson

• Ashe, Samuel A. and Stephen B. Weeks, eds. Biographical History of North Carolina: From Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro, N.C. : Charles L. VanNoppen, 1905-1917. 8 vols. 4: 473-480, port.

Williams, Benjamin (1751 – 1814)

• Ashe, Samuel A. and Stephen B. Weeks, eds. Biographical History of North Carolina: From Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro, N.C. : Charles L. VanNoppen, 1905-1917. 8 vols. 5: 467-472. 
  
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography 

Williams, Lee Gerald (b. 1903)

• Powell, William S. North Carolina Lives, 1314.
  

Williams, Morley Jeffers (1886-1977)

• Beaman, Thomas E., Jr. "The Archaeology of Morley Jeffers Williams and the Restoration of Historic Landscapes at Stratford Hall, Mount Vernon, and Tryon Palace" North Carolina Historical Review (July 2002): 347-372.

Williams, William Joseph (1759-1823)

• Williams, John F., Jr. William J. Williams, Portrait Painter, and his Descendants.  Buffalo, N.Y.: C.C. Brock, 1933.

Willis, George B. (1823-1900)

• Bishir, Catherine W. Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2013), 289-290. 

Willis, Winfield Chadwick (1881 - ?)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:337.

Wilson, Richard Paris (b. 1946)

• Who's Who in North Carolina 1973, 180.

Witherspoon, Franklin Witherspoon (1875 - ?)

• History of the American Negro. North Carolina Edition. (Atlanta: A.B. Caldwell Pub. Co., 1921), 4: 363-367, port.

Witherspoon, John Knox (1791 – 1853)

• Ashe, Samuel A. and Stephen B. Weeks, eds. Biographical History of North Carolina: From Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro, N.C. : Charles L. VanNoppen, 1905-1917. 8 vols. 5: 487-492. 
  
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Wolfenden, John J. (1846-?)

• Prominent People of North Carolina, p. 112, port.

Wood, Ernest Harvey, Jr. (1914 – 1975)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Woodard, Ralph Hartwich (1909 - 1988)

• Powell, William S. North Carolina Lives, 1334.
  

Woods, Freeman (ca. 1766-1834)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Woodward, Sara Griffith Stanley (1836 – 1918)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Wooten, Emmett R. (1878- )

• North Carolina Manual, 1913, p. 296-297. 
• Connor, R.D.W. NC Manual...1915, 352-353.

Wootten, Mary Bayard Morgan (1875 – 1959)

• Barden, Mary Moulton. "Spirit of Bayard Wootten Captured in New Book" Journal of the New Bern Historical Society (May 1999): 12-16, port.
  
• Cotten, Jerry W. "Bayard Wootten: Photographic Artist" Journal of the New Bern Historical Society (November 1991): 3-13. 
• Cotten, Jerry W. Light and Air: The Photograhy of Bayard Wootten. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Walker, Harriette Hammer. Busy North Carolina Women, 80-81, port.
• Women in World History, 16:795-796.