• Margaret "Peggy" Louise Robbins (b. Kowalk), mother of MDH.
  • Margaret Elizabeth Kowalk (b. Wilson), maternal grandmother of MDH.
  • Reeva Frees (b. Lietzke), DeWitt resident, contemporary of MDH's maternal grandfather Lavern Arthur Kowalk.
  • William "Billy" Crego, DeWitt resident, former farmhand of MDH's maternal grandfather LAK.
  • Collection of Margaret Elizabeth Kowalk (b. Wilson): photographs, death certificates, letters, census records.
  • Photographs archived at the DeWitt Library (DeWitt, Mich.).
  • "DeWitt Township Residents Lock into Future" by Louis M. Monticello in The DeWitt-Bath Review 20 Feb 2005.
  • William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway Nation (Minneapolis, Ross & Haines, 1970). First published in 1885.
  • Andrew J. Blackbird/ Chief Mack-a-de-pe-nessey's Complete Both Early and Late History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, a Grammar of Their Language, Personal and Family History of Author (Harbor Spring, Mich., Babcock & Darling, 1897). First published in 1887. Available online.
  • H.W. Koch's History of Prussia (New York, Dorset, 1987). First published in 1978.
  • Clinton County Historical Society's The History of Clinton Country, Michigan (St. Johns, Mich., 1980).
  • The American Promise: A History of the United States by James L. Roark et al. Vol. 1 to 1877. (3rd ed., Bedford St. Martin's, 2005). First published in 1998.
  • Blackbird. See Print Materials (above).
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Smallpox Disease Overview," http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/overview/disease-facts.asp .
  • Peter d'Errico's "Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets" www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html>, and "Elizabeth Fenn: Pox Americana" http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/fenn.html .
  • Paul Chaplin's "Smallpox: Preventing the Unthinkable" via Samedan Ltd. Pharmaceutical, http://www.samedanltd.com/members/archives/EBR/Winter2001/smallPox.asp (accessed 2007). This URL is no longer accessible though the article appears to be available at this address and accompanied by a "malicious software" warning - http://www.samedanltd.com/magazine/12/issue/48 .
  • Gary J. Lindquester, Ph.D.'s Web site - http://www.rhodes.edu/biology/glindquester/viruses/pagespass/smallpox/smallpox.html (accessed May 2006). This URL is no longer accessible. Dr. Lindquester's current Web site is available at http://faculty.rhodes.edu/lindquester .
  • Randall J. Schaetzl's "Geography of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region." Originally accessed in May 2006 for free and without registration at http://www.earthscape.org/t2/scr01/scr01ca.html, which now is only available with registration and eventual payment.
  • Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper, http://www.etymonline.com .
  • "The Etymology of the Words Urban and Suburb" by Sofia on the "South" student team, Department of English, University of Umea, Sweden: http://www.eng.umu.se/city/sofia/suburb/suburb.htm . Also accompanied by a bibliography: http://www.eng.umu.se/city/team_south/bibliography.htm .
  • Glossary by the International Seminar on Urban Form. Terms: "Suburb/ suburban" and "Suburbium," http://urd.let.rug.nl/ekoster/isuf2/glossary/online.html .
  • "European Planning Influences on Third-Tier Suburbs: Installment One" by Stephen Kerlin. Original accessed August 2007 through Cyburbia, Urban Planning Community Web Site, http://www.cyburbia.org/aggregator/sources/297 . Now available at http://suburbia1.blogspot.com/2007/04/european-planning-influences-on-third.html .