Transcribed from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Fanning, a hamlet of Doniphan county, is located in Iowa township on the Burlington & Missouri R. R., 7 miles northwest of Troy, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice and the population in 1910 was 54. It was laid out in 1870, Jesse Reed and James Bradley being the promoters. The depot was built the same year and the postoffice established with James Bradley as postmaster. In 1872 a grist mill was built by William Hedrick.

Page 621 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.