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- ↑ History of the University of North Carolina, Volume II
- ↑ NC Manual of 1913
- ↑ Trial of William W. Holden
- ↑ Raper 1985, p. 293.
- ↑ North Carolina Manual 2011, p. 197.
- ↑ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States, p. 302 and p. 364.
- ↑ "Obituary and Card of Thanks Written in 1864", Statesville Record And Landmark (August 20, 1928), p. 2.
- ↑ "North Carolina", Murfreesboro Index (April 27, 1888), p. 1.
- ↑ "Died", The Raleigh News and Observer (March 13, 1895), p. 8.