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- 1 2 Mayer, "Baltimore: Past and Present: With Biographical Sketches of Its Representative Men", Richardson & Bennett, 1871, page 126.
- 1 2 3 Alfred, Cookman Bryan, History of State Banking in Maryland , Johns Hopkins Press, 1899, page 16.
- ↑ Col. J. Thomas Scharf, The Chronicles of Baltimore , Oxford University, 1874, page 260.
- ↑ Thomas Jefferson, "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson", G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897, page 172.
- ↑ David Morier Evans, "History of the Commercial Crises 1857-58 and the Stock Exchange Panic of 1859", Ayer Publishing, 1969, page 186.