[4] This entry, with the Rockford birthplace and the lack of a first name, persisted in the Total Baseball books of later vintage.

[7] The ballplayer was listed as having been a reserve player for the independent Milwaukee Maple Leafs baseball club in 1883 and 1884.

In learning about the ballplayer, the writer Morris found a mention of the Maple Leafs playing a series hosted by a team from Chicago on May 13.

In the same discovery, the writer found that the ballplayer died nearly seven months later, on December 9, in a railway coupling accident, and was buried in Ixonia, Wisconsin.

[6] In his 2013 book, Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases, the writer Morris included further information on his search for the ballplayer.