Lawrence Van Alstyne, The Ogden Family, Elizabethtown Branch, New Haven, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, (lire en ligne)
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(en) John B. Jentz et Richard Schneirov, Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction, University of Illinois Press, (ISBN9780252093951, lire en ligne), p. 41
(en) Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, Rosetta Books, , 97–99 p. (ISBN978-0-7953-3985-1, lire en ligne)