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- ↑ Journal of the Second Session of the Assembly of the State of Wisconsin: Begun and Holden on the 10th Day of January, and Ending April 2nd A. D. 1849 Madison: D. T. Dickson---State Printer; pp. 5, 21.
- ↑ State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999); pp. 32, 107, 119]
- ↑ Erving, Burdick & Co.'s Milwaukee city directory for 1857 & 1858 Volume I.---New Series. Milwaukee: Steam Press of King, Jermain & Co.; p. 333
- ↑ "Directors and Officers of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co."1868. Sixth Annual Report of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. Milwaukee: Evening Wisconsin Book and Job Printing House, 1869; p. 5