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- ↑ "Persons: Townsend, Thomas J." Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 2018
- ↑ Blegan, Theodore C. "The Competition of the Northwestern States for Immigrants" Wisconsin Magazine of History Vol. III, No. 1 (September, 1919); pp. 8-9
- ↑ "Persons: Townsend, Thomas J." Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 2018