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- ↑ "Women's Relief Corps" in Veterans' Home at Oxford" at http://www.nysvets.org/homes/oxford/wrc/ (accessed 7 April 2010).
- ↑ "Our History" in Veterans' Home at Oxford" at http://www.nysvets.org/homes/oxford/history.aspx (accessed 7 April 2010).
- ↑ "Veterans' Home at Oxford" at http://www.nysvets.org/homes/oxford/ (accessed 8 April 2010).
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