1. Birth date and place, death date, place and cause, Obituary, digital image, Crawford Family Tree, profile for Professor Rodliff Rodley Allen Palmer (7 Sept. 1848–2 Sept. 1874), Ancestry, posted by emc94062.

2. Professor Palmer,” Civil War, 83rd Illinois Infantry, Ibid. “Professor Palmer,” Civil War, 83rd Illinois Infantry. “The story of Professor Allen Rodliff Palmer, a Civil War soldier and circus aerialist who ascended in hot air balloons will be told by his sister Sarah Palmer, who was a portrait artist.” “Projects,” Detached Tent #23 – Mary Chesebro Lee (https://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wimclduv/projects.html : accessed 26 October 2017),

3. “The Balloon Ascension on the Fourth of July,” paper and date unknown, digital image, Crawford Family Tree, profile for Professor Rodliff Rodley Allen Palmer, Ancestry, posted by emc94062.

4. “Daring Feats of an Aeronaut,” Janesville Gazette, Beloit, Wisconsin, 29 July 1874, n.p., digital image, “Public Member Photos and Scanned Documents,” database with images, posted by emc94062, Ancestry.

5. Untitled article, Cambridge City Tribune, Cambridge City, Indiana, 23 Oct. 1873, digitized newspaper, Ancestry > image > 1873 > October 23 > image 2 of 4, column 4.

6. Untitled article, The Dixon Telegraph, Dixon, Illinois, 22 Oct. 1873, digitized newspaper, Ancestry  > image > 1873 > October 22 > image 4 of 7, column 1.

7. Luff, Journal of George Palmer, 46.

8. Circus Historical Society Webpages (http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlympiansP.htm), entry for Palmer, R.A.