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- ↑ "Men Who Helped To Make NashVille". Nashville Banner. 29 May 1927. p. 38. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ↑ "History of the Restoration Movement". www.therestorationmovement.com.
- ↑ "The Literary Record and Journal of the Linnaean Association of Pennsylvania College". The Association. April 16, 1845 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Foster, Douglas A.; Dunnavant, Anthony L.; Blowers, Paul M.; Newell Williams, D. (2004). The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement. ISBN 9780802838988.
- ↑ "The American Agriculturist". Geo. A. Peters. April 16, 1844 – via Google Books.
- ↑ PioneerPreachers.com
