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- ↑ Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut, December, 1915 - July, 1916, New York, 1917, p. 725-6
- ↑ http://www.cslib.org/memorials/maltbiew.htm Connecticut State Library bio, from the connecticut Record
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