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- ↑ Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Mississippi. The University of Mississippi. 1894. p. 100.
- 1 2 3 "The Presbyterian of the South from Atlanta, Georgia on June 4, 1913 · 20". Newspapers.com. 4 June 1913. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ↑ University of Mississippi (1884). Announcements and Catalogue. p. 15.
- ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History.
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