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- ↑ Winfield, Charles (1874). History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey: from its earliest settlement to the present time. New York, NY: Kennard & Hay Stationery M'fg and Print. Co. p. 319. Archive.org
- ↑ "New Jersey Items" (PDF). The New York Times . April 10, 1858. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ↑ "The Election". The New York Times . November 8, 1860. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
Coroners -- Thomas Gaffney, of Jersey City; Frederick W. Bohnstedt, Hoboken; and James H. Donnelly, Hudson City
- ↑ "The Supposed Murder At West Hoboken". The New York Times . July 18, 1862. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
The inquest on the body of Martin Demarest, of the Fifty-third New-York Volunteers, who is supposed to have been murdered by shooting at the foot of Fox Hill, West Hoboken, was continued before Coroner F. W. Bohnstedt, of Hoboken, yesterday forenoon.
- ↑ Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson (2011). Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, 1845-1985. The History Press. ISBN 9781625842152.
- ↑ Gopsill's Jersey City and Hoboken Directory. 1866.
- ↑ "New Jersey Items". The New York Times . Retrieved 2015-02-13.
- ↑ Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New Jersey. State of New Jersey. 1868. p. 21.
- ↑ 1870 census for Hoboken, New Jersey
- ↑ "New Jersey Elections". The Evening Telegram. April 9, 1879. p. 1.