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- ↑ Law Notes, Volume 25 (October 1921), p. 133.
- ↑ American Law School Review, Volume 2 (1906), p. 586.
- 1 2 Zella Armstrong, The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volume II (1940), p. 169-170.
- ↑ American Bar Association, Annual Report of the American Bar Association, Volume 37 (1912), p. 608.
- ↑ Susie McCarver Webster, Historic City, Chattanooga (1915), p. 35.
- ↑ Robert Bocking Stevens, Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s (2001), p. 201.
- ↑ "Nary A Freshman", The Troy Record (December 14, 1943), p. 20.
- ↑ "Justice T. Grady Head Dies After Brain Surgery", The Atlanta Constitution (June 8, 1965), p. 1.
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