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- ↑ "Attorneys General of Indiana". Indiana State Library.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Fox, Henry Clay (1912). Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond, Indiana: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Wayne County, Volume 2. Indiana. pp. 96–98.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Monks, Leander John (1916). Courts and lawyers of Indiana. Indianapolis: Federal Publishing Company.
- ↑ French, William M. (1864). Life, Speeches, State Papers and Public Services of Gov. Oliver P. Morton. Indiana: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin.
- ↑ "Isabella County Enterprise, 14 November 1877". Central Michigan University Libraries Digital Michigan Newspapers. Central Michigan University.
- 1 2 "Burbank-Morton-Kibbey-Cunningham family of Indiana". The Political Graveyard.
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