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- ↑ The History Makers-Walter Furnace
- ↑ Our Campaigns.com.-Walter Furnace
- ↑ Alaska Legislature Roster of Members 1913-2014, pp. 61–67, 99
- ↑ Eppenbach, Sarah; Foster, Scott, eds. (1983). Alaska Blue Book (Sixth ed.). Juneau: Alaska Department of Education, Division of State Libraries. p. 85.
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