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- ↑ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 307.
- 1 2 3 4 Stanton, Anthony & Gage 1886, p. 971.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 308.
- ↑ Stanton, Anthony & Gage 1886, p. 972.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan B.; Gage, Matilda Joslyn (1886). History of Woman Suffrage: 1876-1885 (Public domain ed.). Fowler & Wells. p. 971.- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 307.
