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1915 NY Census [6]
1920 NY Census [7]
1925 NY Census [8]
1930 NY Census [9]
1940 NY Census part a [10]
1940 NY Census part b [11]
Death index [12]
Obituary [13]
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- ↑ Palm Springs Walk of Stars: By Date Dedicated Archived December 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Masiola, Rosanna (2018). Interjections, Translation, and Translanguaging : Cross-Cultural and Multimodal Perspectives. Lexington Books. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-4985-7464-8.
- ↑ "Palm Springs Walk of Stars dedication" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 14, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
- ↑ 1910 NY Census
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- ↑ 1920 NY Census
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- ↑ 1930 NY Census
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- ↑ 1940 NY Census part b
- ↑ Death index
- ↑ Obituary
