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- ↑ The Baptist Encyclopedia, entry "Judge Okey Johnson", ed. William Cathcart, Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881, p. 606.
- ↑ Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association, ed. Nelson Hubbard, Wheeling: West Virginia Printing Co., 1904, p. 109-110.
- ↑ Garden and Forest, April 15, 1896, "A Forest Reservation in the Allleghanies", p. 152.
- ↑ http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2008/04/04/6670 WVU Today, April 4, 2008, "WVU selects distinguished scholar to lead College of Law"
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