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.

Pekin, an inland hamlet of Reno county, is located 15 miles west of Hutchinson, the county seat, and 5 miles north of Abbyville, on the "cut off" of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., which is the nearest railroad station and shipping point and is the postoffice from which its mail is distributed by rural delivery. The population according to the census of 1910 was 40.

Page 459 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.