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- ↑ Portrait and Biographical Record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Excelsior Publishing Co. 1894. pp. 876–877. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
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- ↑ 'Deaths Henry M. Ackley,' Waukesha Freeman, December 26, 1921, pg. 4
- ↑ J. E. Heg, ed. (1882). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Litho. and Engr. Co. p. 531. Retrieved 2015-09-24.