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- 1 2 3 4 5 "Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
- 1 2 William Waller, Nashville in the 1890s, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970, p. 83
- 1 2 The Beta Theta Pi, Volume 23, 1895
- ↑ The Journal of East Tennessee History, issue 76, 2005, p. 113
- ↑ Nashville Library Archived October 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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