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- ↑ Lamb, John M. (November 1977). "The Great Canal Scrip Fraud" (PDF). The Magazine of Illinois. 16 (9): 57–60.
- ↑ Journal of the Senate of the Twenty-First General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Springfield: Bailhache & Baker. 1859.
- ↑ The Great Canal Scrip Fraud. Minutes of Proceedings, and Report of Evidence in the Investigation of the Case, By the Grand Jury of Sangamon County, ILL, at the April Term of the Court of Said County, 1859, Ordered to be Published by a Vote of the Grand Jury. Springfield: Daily Journal Steam Press. 1859.
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