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- ↑ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. XII, James T. White & Co., 1904, p. 432.
- ↑ Prominent Men of West Virginia, George Wesley Atkinson and Alvaro Franklin Gibbens, W. L. Callin, 1890, p. 244.
- ↑ http://www.themountaineagle.com/news/2014-07-16/Features/Thomas_S_Haymond_was_influential_coal_man_in_Letch.html Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine The Mountain Eagle, July 16, 2014, "Thomas S. Haymond was influential coal man in Letcher, Floyd counties"
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