found: LC data base, 11-27-90(hdg.: Tipton, Vernon J.; usage: Vernon J. Tipton)
found: Fleas of North America, 1978:title page (Vernon J. Tipton)
found: A preliminary study of the Siphonapterous Ectoparasites found on the mammals of the families Cricetidae and Muridae in Utah County, 1949:title page (by Vernon J. Tipton)
found: New distribution records of Utah siphonaptera with the description of a new species of "Meg arthroglossus", 1951:title page (by V.J. Tipton and Dorald M. Allred)
found: Deseret News, via WWW, March 6, 2019(November 8, 2001 edition; Vernon J. Tipton, 81, of Springville, Utah, passed away November 6, 2001; he was a World War II veteran and retired professor of Zoology at Brigham Young University)
found: FamilySearch, March 6, 2019(Vernon John Tipton; born 12 July 1920 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died 6 November 2001 in Payson, Utah, Utah; son of Isaac Norman Tipton and Lula K. Allen; married Norma Russell on 13 February 1943; he served in World War II as an army bombardier and was shot down and captured, spending a year to the day in a prison camp, Stalag III; he was liberated by General George Patton's troops on April 29, 1945; he earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley; he retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps in 1968 and began a long and happy association with Brigham Young University, where he was a professor of zoology)