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- ↑ Dwight H. Brown. Official Manual State of Missouri 1941-1942. Jefferson City, Missouri: Mid-State Printing Company. p. 71.
- ↑ Alan R. Havig (1998). A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998 . Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. pp. 78.
- ↑ "Helen Rozier, obituary" . Retrieved 2018-07-05.
