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- ↑ Greve, Charles. T.; Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens; 1904; Page 580.
- ↑ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of ...; United States Congress Senate, 1823, Page 337
- ↑ Ohio History, Volume 29, Page 231 - Online website. In the late 1830s he edited a weekly newspaper, the Kentucky and Ohio Journal.
- ↑ Catalogue of the Officers and Students in the Medical and Law Departments of Cincinnati College, 1835-1836; Board of Directors, 1836
- ↑ Wesenberger, Francis; The History of Ohio, 1825-1850; The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society; (1941); Page 379
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