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- ↑ Harold B. Prince (1 January 1983). A Presbyterian Bibliography: The Published Writings of Ministers who Served in the Presbyterian Church in the United States During Its First Hundred Years, 1861-1961, and Their Locations in Eight Significant Theological Collections in the U.S.A. Scarecrow Press. pp. 385–. ISBN 978-0-8108-1639-8.
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