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- ↑ Rines, George Edwin and Beach, Frederick Converse, editors, The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 9, 1904, entry for "LAW"
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- ↑ Official Congressional Biography, William Adams Walker, accessed March 21, 2012
- ↑ Gidmark, Jill B., Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes, 2001, page 51
- ↑ Holland, Josiah Gilbert, History of Western Massachusetts, 1855, Volume 2, page 173
- ↑ Reed, George Irving, Bench and Bar of Michigan, 1897, page 8