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- ↑ Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... Archived 2011-05-04 at the Wayback Machine "Highland University" Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
- ↑ Highland Community College. "Mission and History". highlandcc.edu. Archived from the original on August 17, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ↑ Burgan, Michael (2007). George Washington Carver: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-7565-1882-0.
- ↑ Kremer, Gary R. (2011). George Washington Carver: A Biography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-313-34796-2.
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