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- ↑ "Smith, J." Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ↑ 'Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,' volume IX, Wisconsin Historical Society: 1909, Biographical sketch of John B. Smith, pg. 428-129
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