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- ↑ "Seeks To Wipe Out Sickles Commission. Fine Arts Federation Would Have a State Art Board Named to Take Its Place". New York Times . December 12, 1912. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ↑ "General Sickle's Place Filled". Christian Science Monitor . December 11, 1912. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
... funds are many thousands of dollars short its chairman Gen Daniel E Sickles has been succeeded by Col Lewis R Stegman of Brooklyn General Sickles ...