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- 1 2 3 4 5 Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky
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- ↑ 'Report of the Annual Meeting of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin, February 2–3, 1901, Madison, Wisconsin,' Taylor and Gleason Book and Job Printers, Madison, Wisconsin: 1901, Biographical Sketch of Joseph Trotter Mills, pg. 324
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Little, p. 104
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