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- "John Watson". Select Biographies. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. 1857. pp. 42–59.
- 1 2 "John Watson (1802-1802)". U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives. Washington & Jefferson College. 2003-09-04.
- ↑ McClelland, W.C. (1903). "A History of Literary Societies at Washington & Jefferson College". The Centennial Celebration of the Chartering of Jefferson College in 1802. Philadelphia: George H. Buchanan and Company. pp. 111–132.
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