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- ↑ "The Courts," Sacramento Daily Union, February 9, 1856
- ↑ "Los Angeles Library Association," Los Angeles Star, July 23. 1859
- ↑ "Death of an Irish Exile," Sacramento Daily Union, January 16, 1861
- ↑ Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials 1850–1938, Municipal Reference Library, March 1938, reprinted 1946
- ↑ "The State Government," Sacramento Daily Union, January 1, 1863
- 1 2 "Death of Judge Reynolds," Daily Alta California, February 13, 1877
- ↑ "Odd Fellows' College and Home," Daily Alta California, July 12, 1870
- ↑ "Odd Fellows' College and Home," Sacramento Daily Union, October 4, 1871
- ↑ "Funeral of Judge Reynolds," Daily Alta California, February 15, 1877
- ↑ "Births — Marriages — Deaths," San Francisco Call, October 12, 1901, page 13
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