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- ↑ Greenwalt 1955, p. 20; Widdicombe, Morris & Kross 2017, pp. 36, 448.
- ↑ Ferrier, William Warren (1933). Berkeley, California: The Story of the Evolution of a Hamlet into a City of Culture and Commerce. pp. 134 and 201-202.
- ↑ O'Connor 2000, p. 96.
- ↑ O'Connor 2000, pp. 126–127.
- ↑ Hine 1983, p. 190.
- ↑ O'Connor 2000, p. 131.
- ↑ Hine 1983, p. 107.
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