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- ↑ "Legislative and State Manual of Indiana". W.B. Burford. April 9, 1899 – via pages 12, 23, 41, 112, and 114.
- ↑ State, Indiana Treasurer of (April 9, 1914). "Annual Report of the Treasurer of the State of Indiana for the Fiscal Year Ending ..." Wm. B. Burford – via page 4.
- ↑ "Portrait of Leopold Levy". Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection.
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