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- ↑ New York Red Book (1927; pg. 41)
- ↑ see Long Island Daily Press, January 23, 1935
- ↑ REALTY MAN ENDS LIFE; Brother of Former State Senator Burkard Dies in Patchogue in the New York Times on October 16, 1931 (subscription required)
- ↑ BURKARD HELD ON CLIENT'S THEFT CHARGE in the Long Island Daily Press, of Jamaica, Queens, on January 23, 1935 [with portrait]