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- ↑ "Smith, Abraham Hyatt 1814 - 1892". www.wisconsinhistory.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07.
- ↑ 'The convention of 1846,' Milo Milton Quaife, The Wisconsin Historical Society:1918, Biographical Sketch of Abraham Hyatt Smith, p. 790
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