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- ↑ Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Vol II, pp 582-83
- ↑ Nelson, Vol II, pp 582-83
- ↑ Find-a-Grave
- ↑ Nelson, Vol II, pp 582-83
- ↑ The Safe Harbor timeline, produced through a grant from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, shows Himrod founding the French Street School for Colored Children in Erie in 1824. It states that the Himrod Mission was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Himrod is said to have purchased a large tract of land in 1827 just outside the City of Erie, which became known as Jerusalem, for the benefit of African Americans and destitute whites. Himrod joined the Erie County Anti-Slavery Society in 1836.