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Banks, Margaret Downie. "ASK AMIS: [Conn's Contrabass Sarrusophone]," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society XX, No. 1 (February 1991): 16.
_______. "Greenleaf Collection at Interlochen," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society XIX, No. 1 (February 1990): 21-22.
_______. "Violin Making by the Conn Company of Indiana," Journal of The Violin Society of America XI, No. 3 (1992): 31-76.
_______ and James W. Jordan. "C. G. Conn: The Man (1844-1931) and His Company (1874-1915)," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society XIV (1988): 61-113.
Link to a complete list of Dr. Margaret Downie Banks' publications about the Conn Company.
Butler, George W. The Manual of Elkhart (Elkhart: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1889).
"C. D. Greenleaf, Conn Chairman, Dies July 10th," The Music Trades (August 1959): 29ff.
"Charles Gerard Conn," Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1971 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1971): 774.
"Col. C. G. Conn, 86, is Dead," The Elkhart Truth, January 6, 1931.
Conn, Charles Gerard and Ben Gordon Whitehead. Charles Gerard Conn: A Brief Sketch of Life (n.p.: [ca. 1926]).
Clark, Barbara. "C. G. Conn was Flamboyant Personality," The Elkhart Truth, November 6, 1976.
Deahl, Anthony. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Elkhart County, Indiana (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1905).
"Fire! Destruction of Conn's Horn Factory," Elkhart Weekly Observer, February 1, 1883.
Freund, John C. "Sketches in the Trade: C. G. Conn, of Elkhart, Ind.," The American Musician (January 26, 1889): 23.
General History of the Music Trades of America (New York: Bill & Bill, 1891).
Greenleaf, Carl. Autobiographical sketch. Unpublished, [ca.1945-1950].
"Henkin Buys C. G. Conn," The Music Trades (September 1980): 18ff.
"Henkin Sells Music Companies," The Music Trades (November 1985): 62-68.
History of Elkhart County, Indiana (Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman & Co., 1881).
Jarman, Rufus. "Big Noise in Indiana," Parts 1 and 2, The Saturday Evening Post, February 7, 1948: 23ff; February 14, 1948: 28ff.
"Leland B. Greenfield [sic] 1904-1978," The Music Trades (April 1978): 71ff.
"New Conn Factory to Rise from Ruins," Elkhart Daily Review, May 23, 1910.
Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, 1893).
Pickrell, Martha. "Charles G. Conn Who Helped Shape Elkhart's Destiny," The South Bend Tribune, September 1, 1974.
Weaver, Abraham E., ed. A Standard History of Elkhart County Indiana, Vol. I and II (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1916).
Whitehead, Ben Gordon, "Col. Chas. Gerard Conn," Indianapolis News, February 1, 1902.
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