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- ↑ Commerce, manufactures & resources of Boston, Mass: a historical, statistical & descriptive review. National Publishing, 1883
- ↑ Boston Almanac. 1876
- ↑ Boston Almanac. 1888, 1894
- ↑ Christine Merrick Ayars (1937), Contributions to the art of music in America by the music industries of Boston, 1640 to 1936, New York: The H.W. Wilson company, OCLC 26107160, OL 6349676M
