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- ↑ Compendium of History, Reminiscence, and Biography of Nebraska. Chicago: Alden Publishing Company. 1912. pp. 552–553.
- ↑ History of Green County, Wisconsin. Springfield, Ill.: Union Publishing Company. 1884. pp. 287–288.