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.

Haven, one of the thriving and prosperous towns of the wheat belt, is in Haven township, Reno county, and is located on the Missouri Pacific R. R. 15 miles southeast of Hutchinson, the county seat. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Journal), a flour mill, an elevator, a creamery, and a number of well stocked retail stores. The town was laid out in 1886, and was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1901. It is supplied with telegraph and express offices and has an international money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population according to the census of 1910 was 528.

Page 830 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.