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- ↑ "Marriage Announcement". Chicago Tribune . January 22, 1876. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
- ↑ "John G. Saxe Dead, 75. General Counsel for Columbia. Headed State Bar. Expert on Election Statutes". New York Times . April 18, 1953. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
- ↑ Cuyler Reynolds (1914). "John Theodore Saxe". Genealogical and family history of southern New York. pp. 1097–1101. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
- ↑ "A Man of Many Sorrows". Chicago Tribune . July 7, 1881. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
Mr. John Theodore Saxe, son of John G. Saxe, was buried yesterday afternoon. Only relatives and the nearest friends were invited to the funeral. The almost unprecedented family misfortunes of the genial poet have excited universal attention. They began in 1874, when Mr. Saxe was a resident of Brooklyn.