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The Book of St. Louisans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of St. Louis / edited by John W. Leonard (St. Louis: St. Louis Republic, 1906)
The Book of St. Louisans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of St. Louis / edited by John W. Leonard (St. Louis: St. Louis Republic, 1912)
History of the Scottish Rite Valley of St. Louis, Orient of Missouri / by James B. Steiner and James W. Skelly ([St. Louis, Mo.?: Scottish Rite], 1950)
History of St. Louis County, Missouri: a Condensed History of Missouri and St. Louis; a Detailed Record of Epoch-Making Events in St. Louis County; Material Progress and General Resources; Official, Political and Military Activity; Incidents and Reminiscences (Clayton, Mo.: Watchman-Advocate, 1920)
The Kentucky Society of St. Louis (St. Louis: Little & Becker, 1913)
History of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis: a Condensed History of the Catholic Church in Missouri and Saint Louis, Material Progress and General Resources and Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens (St. Louis, Mo.: Western Watchman Pub. Co., 1924)
Volume Two. History of St. Aldemar Commandery No. 18, Knights Templar, Stationed at St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1894, to December 31, 1903 / compiled by W.P. Rickart (St. Louis: Merry & Nicholson Printing Company, 1903)
Who's Who in St. Louis (St. Louis: Civic Union of St. Louis, 1928)
Inaugural Edition of the St. Louis Star, March 13, 1904
Who's Who in St. Louis ([St. Louis, Mo.]: Published under auspices of the Civic Union of St. Louis by the Who's Who Committee, ca. 1930)
City of Saint Louis and Its Resources / St. Louis Star-Sayings (St. Louis: Continental Printing Co., 1893)
The Book of Missourians: The Achievements and Personnel of Notable Living Men and Women of Missouri in the Opening Decade of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, St. Louis: T.J. Steele, 1906)
Representative Missourians photograph albums: Volume 1 (1936), Volumes 2 and 3 (1937). Compiled by J.C. Strauss Studio, Inc.
St. Louis Leadership, 1944 / compiled and published by Walter P. Tracy
The Makers of St. Louis: A Brief Sketch of the Growth of a Great City, with Biographies of the Men Whose Lives Have Been Given to the Building Up of a Mid-continent Metropolis (St. Louis: The Mirror, 1906)
St. Louis, the Fourth City: Pictorial and Biographical, Deluxe Supplement (St. Louis: S.J. Clarke, 1912)
The St. Louis Story: Library of American Lives, 1952 / by McCune Gill (Hopkinsville, KY: Historical Record Association, 1952)
St. Louisans with Records: City Builders, Representative Missourians / compiled and edited by Harry J. Boswell (St. Louis, Mo.: Nixon-Jones Print. Co., 1911)
Who's Who in the Midwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Central and Midwestern States (Chicago, Illinois: The A. N. Marquis Company, 1949)
Who's What and Why in Missouri (Hopkinsville, Ky.: Historical Record Association, 1959)
Who's Who in the Central States (Washington, D.C.: Mayflower Pub. Co., 1929)
Saint Louis To-Day (special issue of The Mirror, Volume 21, Number 11; May 9, 1912) (St. Louis: W.M. Reedy, 1912)
Who's Who in the Central States: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the Central States (Chicago: Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, 1947)
Men Who Make St. Louis the City of Opportunity (St. Louis: W.P. Tracy, [1927])
Old and New St. Louis: A Concise History of the Metropolis of the West and Southwest, with a Review of Its Present Greatness and Immediate Prospects / by James Cox (St. Louis: Central Biographical Pub. Co., 1894)
"St. Louisans You Want to Know " (published by the Penograph Feature Service Co., St. Louis, circa 1921)
Reedy's Mirror (Volume XXIII, No. 46; December 18, 1914)
St. Louis, History of the Fourth City, 1763-1909, volume II (St. Louis: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909)
Who's Who in North St. Louis (St. Louis: North St. Louis Business Men's Association, 1925)
Squib (St. Louis, Mo.) (Three issues: No. 16, Vol. 22, April 15, 1905; Vol. 44, No. 41, November 1, 1924; and a damaged, partial issue dated circa 1911.)
History of St. Louis County, Missouri, volume II / by William L. Thomas (St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911)
Commercial and Architectural St. Louis (Dumont Jones & Co., 1891)
Commercial and Architectural St. Louis (Jones & Orear, 1888)
Souvenir of the Missouri Legislature (Thirty-Ninth General Assembly): State Officers, Etc., 1897-8 (Jefferson City, Mo.: Scroggs & Davis, 1897)
St. Louis, History of the Fourth City, 1763-1909, volume III (St. Louis: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909)
St. John's Orphanage Edition of The Messenger. History of the Diocese of Belleville (Belleville, Illinois: Published by Joseph Nicholas Buechler, [1919]).
Who's Who in Missouri: a Compilation of Biographical Information on Outstanding Citizens of the State of Missouri (Atlanta, Ga.: United States Public Relations Service, 1974)
Coal Men of America: A Biographical and Historical Review of the World's Greatest Industry (Chicago: The Retail Coalman, 1918)
The Western Watchman Golden Jubilee Edition, 1865-1915 (St. Louis: Western Watchman, 1915)
History of the City of St. Louis and Vicinity from the Earliest Times to the Present: The Pioneers and Their Successors, Biographical Sketches / by John Devoy (St. Louis: J. Devoy, 1898)
St. Charles Banner News issue, October 26, 1912
Men of Affairs in Saint Louis: A Newspaper Reference Work (1915)
Who�s Who in Commerce and Industry, 1940-1941
Who�s Who in Labor, 1946

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