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- ↑ Kamila, Avery Yale (2021-02-14). "A 19th-century Portland newspaper an early advocate for a vegetarian diet". Press Herald. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
- Pritchard, Rebecca M. (2006). The Life and Times of Jeremiah Hacker, 1801-1895. University of Southern Maine.