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- ↑ "Honoring our Colonial History: Tablets, Monuments, and Memorials Placed by the Society of Colonial Wars 1892–2010", Andrew Ross Huston, Editor. General Society of Colonial Wars, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59932-206-3.
- ↑ "Society of Colonial Wars: 1892–1992 – The Centennial History" by General Society of Colonial Wars (1992); LCCN 92-80911
- 1 2 3 General Society of Colonial Wars Index of Ancestors and Members (2011), Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California (2008) p. 106.
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- ↑ "Edgar S. Dudley – Cullum's Register – 2326". penelope.uchicago.edu.
