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- ↑ Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867 - 1924 by Carter Brown Jr. University of Alabama Press (1998) pages 75 and 145
- ↑ "General Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida". Office of the Floridian and Journal. November 30, 1885 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "General Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida". Office of the Floridian and Journal. November 30, 1883 – via Google Books.