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- ↑ The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin. Western historical Company. 1880.
- ↑ Robert L. Ream, in A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin, including the Four Lake Country to July 1874 by Daniel S. Durrie. Madison, Wisconsin, 1874. p. 118–19. http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/tp&CISOPTR=17926 Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Memoirs of Milwaukee County : from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Milwaukee County. Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association, 1909. OCLC 3347831. p. 164 Reprinted by La Crosse, Wisconsin: Brookhaven Press, 2000. ISBN 1-58103-125-4, ISBN 978-1-58103-125-6, ISBN 1-58103-126-2, ISBN 978-1-58103-126-3
This article incorporates text from the 1909 edition of Memoirs of Milwaukee County , by Jerome Anthony Watrous which is in the public domain in the United States.