Part 8, Note 13

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Colorado Citizen, May 11, 1871, March 21, 1872, November 19, 1874, December 17, 1874, December 31, 1874, January 14, 1875, May 6, 1875, July 8, 1875, December 2, 1875, April 20, 1876, May 11, 1876, June 1, 1876, June 8, 1876, August 31, 1876, October 26, 1876, November 2, 1876, April 19, 1877, March 28, 1878, April 11, 1878, November 14, 1878, November 28, 1878, July 17, 1879; Indianola Bulletin, May 23, 1871; Osage Debating Club Records (Ms. 49), Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus. The records of the debating club and literary society contain four or five handwritten poems. Three were written by Ann Elizabeth Townsend, the widow of Moses Solon Townsend and mother of Marcus Harvey Townsend. The authors of the other poems cannot be determined.