Sources
- John H. White, Asa Whitney biography in The American Railroad Passenger Car. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, p. 65. ISBN 0-8018-2747-7
- Franklin Benjamin Hough, comp., The New York Civil List Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, p. 42.
- "A. Whitney & Sons Fail", New York Times, March 26, 1891
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Whitney, Asa, manufacturer". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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