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- ↑ "Grand Lodge of Masons will attend Gen. Jewell's Funeral". Daily Reporter-Star. January 3, 1912.
- ↑ Larry Kestenbaum. "Jewell, William H. (1840-1912)". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
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