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"The Ellis & Armitage Music Publishing Company"
Capital – $25,000
Incorporators: James G. Ellis, Charles G. Davies (1852–1921), Daniel J. Armitage (1857–1931) - ↑ (see Van Buren sisters)
- ↑ The M.S.C. Record, Michigan Agricultural College (publisher), February 13, 1920, Vol. 25, Issues 19, pg. 8., col. 3
- ↑ "From 'Hawk-Eye March and Quick Step' to 'Caprice Hongrois': Music Publishing in Iowa", by Diane Parr Walker (born 1953), American Music, Vol. 1, No. 4, Music Publishing in America (Winter, 1983), pg. 50 (pps. 42–62), University of Illinois Press; ISSN 1945-2349
- ↑ "Hears Owls Hoot in Her Dreams and Fears for Her Friend", Decatur Daily Democrat, August 7, 1915, pg. 1
- ↑ "Hears Owls Hoot", Chicago American , August 4, 1915
- ↑ "'62 Edmund B. Miner", Auburn Seminary Record, Volume 19, Issue 1, New York: Auburn Theological Seminary (1923)
- ↑ "Farm News Editor 40 Years Dies", Dallas Morning News , December 17, 1940, Sec. 2, pgs. 1 & 16
- ↑ William R. McKenzie, former president of the Christian Science Church, was the brother of sculptor R. Tait McKenzie
- ↑ Catalogue of Vocal Solos and Duets Arranged in Biblical Order (2nd ed.), James A. Laster & Diana Reed Strommen (eds.), Scarecrow Press (2003), pg. 215; OCLC 52203064
- ↑ The Art of Music (Vol. 11 of 14), by Daniel Gregory Mason, New York: National Society of Music (1917); OCLC 3026244
- ↑ Edison Diamond Disc Record Labels & Discography: Vol. 2 — 1920–1924, by Edgar Gregory (ed.), Melvindale, Michigan: Mel Print. Co. (2003); OCLC 664425669