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- ↑ "Lucius W. Moody (Includes Wife Dr. Mary B. Moody)". Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, Connecticut, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families. Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co. 1902. pp. 1542–1543. OCLC 2923764 . Retrieved September 5, 2018– via HathiTrust.
- 1 2 Charles Amadon Moody's obituary, Out West, Vol. 1, Out West Company, 1910.
- ↑ "Editor Lies at Death's Door" . Los Angeles Times . 16 November 1910. p. 16. Retrieved September 5, 2018– via newspapers.com.
- ↑ Thompason, Mark. American Character: The Curious History of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest, pp. 199, 256-57 (Arcade Publishing, 2001)( ISBN 1-55970-550-7)
- ↑ (19 November 1910). Body of Charles A. Moody, Mining Man, Cremated, Los Angeles Herald, p. 12, col. 7.
- ↑ Charles Amadon Moody, at findagrave.com, Retrieved 1 April 2013
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