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- ↑ McKelvey, Blake (1993). Rochester on the Genesee: The Growth of a City, Second Edition. Syracuse University Press. p. 34. ISBN 0815625960.
- ↑ Burt, Andrew (2015). American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 61. ISBN 9781493017652.