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- ↑ "J-F-D-Lanier Mansion National Historic Landmark".
- ↑ David A Skeel, Jr., Debt's Dominion (Princeton UP 2001), first paperback edition, page 49
- 1 2 3 Vincent P. Carosso, Rose C. Carosso, "The Morgans" (Harvard University Press, 1987) p. 248
- ↑ "Obituary of Edward Dean Adams, 1931" (PDF).
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