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- ↑ Society, Rock County Agricultural (1856). History of Rock County: And Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. W. M. Doty and brother, printers.
- ↑ Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999" Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 108.
- ↑ Journal of the Assembly of the Third Legislature of the State of Wisconsin Madison: David T. Dickson-State Printer, 1850; pp. 5, 11
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