Ben H. Proctor, Not without Honor: The Life of John Reagan (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1962), 196-98, 218, 255.
Crocker to CPH, Jan. 19, 1885, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 39.
Congressional Record, 43rd Cong., 2d sess., Jan. 10, 1887, 490-91.
Clipping, Morning Call, Jan. 11, 1887, box 4, f. 15, SC 33a, Stanford Papers.
Perkins to Forbes, April 28, 1878, 3 F 3.23.3, J. M. Forbes, In-letters, private from C. E. Perkins, CB&Q.
Proctor, Not without Honor, 236.
Richard Overton, Perkins/Budd: Railway Statesmen of the Burlington (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), 44-45, 58-59.