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Preliminary Bibliography
Reputable website:

Mahoney, Eleanor. "Elkins, Thomas (1818-1900)." Blackpast.org. Accessed November 14, 2018. https://blackpast.org/aah/elkins-thomas-1818-1900

Secondary source:

Bellis, Mary. "Inventor Thomas Elkins." ThoughtCo. Accessed November 16, 2018. https://www.thoughtco.com/dr-thomas-elkins-4074330.

Primary source:

Elkins, Thomas. Improvement in refrigerating apparatus. U.S. Patent 221,222, filed July 15, 1879, and issued November 4, 1879.

I also hope to access a dissertation from which it seems blackpast.org got a large portion of its information on Elkins, titled “Selected Aspects on the History of the African-American in the Mohawk and Upper Hudson Valley, 1633-1940,” a 1993 PhD. dissertation sourced at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Herring, Paul W. B. “Selected Aspects on the History of the African-American in the Mohawk and Upper Hudson Valley, 1633-1940.” PhD. Diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993.