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- ↑ "Making More Sense of Machin", Kenneth Lifshitz, 2007, ,"Making More Sense of Machin title" [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Shuck, Oscar Tully (1901). History of the bench and bar of California: being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. pp. 494–495. ISBN 1-58477-706-0.
- ↑ Some materials provided to Kenneth Lifshitz by Kent Stoddard, Mono County Historian
- ↑ "The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of California" volume VII, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The History Company, San Francisco, 1890, pp. 303–304
- ↑ Material derived from the Oakland Tribune , December 20th 1915
