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- ↑ Company, J. B. Lippincott (February 28, 1880). "Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ..." J.B. Lippincott & Company – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ "Tribble, Andrew A. · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database". nkaa.uky.edu.
- ↑ "Marker Dedicated to Vaudevillian Andrew Tribble in Madison County". WEKU. October 2, 2019.
- ↑ "The Railway World". United States Railroad and Mining Register Company. February 28, 1905 – via Google Books.
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