Purcell, one of the villages of Doniphan county, is located in Union township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., 15 miles southwest of Troy, the county seat. It has banking facilities, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 150. It was founded about 1886. The following were some of the early settlers: Patrick Shaughnessy, John Whelan, Patrick Brady, John Purcell, David Whelan, Pater Heichenberger and Kasper Troll.
Page 523 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.
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