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- ↑ http://www.in.gov/library/exhibits/lawyers/aids/b1ob3.html Brief bio on Indiana State Library website
- ↑ https://www.in.gov/library/fa_index/fa_by_letter/b/b16.html Indiana State Library, Certificates relating to Buskirk
- ↑ "countyhistory.org". countyhistory.org.
- ↑ The Green Bag: An Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers, Volume 4 (1892), p. 264
- ↑ http://genealogytrails.com/ind/monroe/Biographies/BMonroeBiographies.htm Monroe County biographies, "George A. Buskirk"
- ↑ The Post Almanac, Weather Forecasts, and Book of Facts for the Office, Home, and Farm 1901, Post Company, Washington, D.C.: 1901, p. 122
- ↑ Greater Indianapolis, Volume 1, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1910, p. 165
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