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- ↑ "Statewide County WI Archives Biographies Carpenter, Fred J." USGenWeb Archives. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
- ↑ THE BLUE BOOK OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. Madison: Democrat Printing Company. 1907. p. 1167.
