Transcribed from volume II 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.

Linn, a thriving little town in Washington county, is located in Linn township 10 miles south of Washington, the county seat, on the Missouri Pacific R. R. It has four churches, a graded public school, 2 denominational schools, 2 public schools, several secret and fraternal orders, 3 grain elevators, 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Digest), telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population in 1910 was 300. It is the shipping point for a prosperous stock raising and agricultural area, over 250 cars of live stock, 225 cars of grain, and $60,000 worth of poultry, produce and cream being shipped annually.

Page 165 from volume II 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 July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.