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- ↑ Rochester and the Post express: a history of the city of Rochester from the earliest times : the pioneers and their predecessors, frontier life in the Genesee country, biographical sketches : with a record of the Post express, Post Express Printing Company, 1895, p. 276
- ↑ Adrienne Florence Muzzy, Ulrich's international periodicals directory, Volume 5, New York City: R.R. Bowker Company, 1998, p. 10833
- ↑ William J. Reese, Progressivism and the grass roots: social change and urban schooling, 1840-1920, Volume 2, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison Press, 1980, p. 439
