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- ↑ History of the Swedes of Illinois, Volume 1 (edited by Ernst Wilhelm Olson, Martin J. Engberg, Anders Schön. Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company. 1908)
- ↑ The History of the Christina Nilsson (University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute) "Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks - Explore Shipwrecks - Christina Nilsson". Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ↑ The Swedish Element in Illinois: Survey of the Past Seven Decades (by Ernst Wilhelm Olson, Swedish-American Biographical Association. 1917)