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- ↑ "Orrin J Williams". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ↑ 'Reno Man's Brother Dies In The East,' Reno Evening Gazette, June 21, 193, pg. 4
- ↑ Lawrence S. Barish, ed. (2007). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007 - 2008. p. 186.
- ↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1895,' Biographical Sketch of Orrin James Williams, pg. 690-691
