According to Albert Clark Stevens, The Cyclopædia of Fraternities, 2nd ed., New York: Treat, 1907, p. 282, the fifth and seventh names are R. Schivendel and Philipp Hermann. He and the New York Times both have "Dr. Philip Merkel" as the first name.
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Georg Schuster, Die Geheimen Gesellschaften, Verbindungen und Orden, Volume 2 Leipzig: Theodor Leibing, 1906, p. 511.
Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ed. Thomas Adam, ABC-CLIO, 2005, ISBN1-85109-628-0 p. 985 [1].
Avraham Barkai, Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820–1914. Ellis Island Series. Holmes & Meier, 1994, ISBN0-8419-1152-5, p. 184.
Kathleen Neils Conzen, Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836–1860: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN0-674-44436-1p. 169.
"History," Hermann Sons Fraternal Insurance, 2008. Accessed October 18, 2009.
"Retirement Home," Hermann Sons Fraternal Insurance, 2008. Accessed October 18, 2009. Admission requires membership and twenty years' life insurance premiums.
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Fritz Schilo, "Sons of Hermann", Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Society, retrieved August 14, 2013.
