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.

McFarland, an incorporated city of the third class in Wabaunsee county, is located in Newberry township 4 miles from Alma, the county seat. It is at the junction of two lines of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. and has over 30 passenger trains per day. All the leading lines of mercantile enterprise are represented; there are telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 388. It is one of the new towns of the county, founded by the railroad company a few years ago.

Page 203 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.