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.

Ransom, an incorporated city of Ness county, is located in Nevada township on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 12 miles north of Ness City, the county seat. It has a bank, a number of retail stores, a hotel, telegraph and express offices and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 204. It was incorporated as a city of the third class by the act of March 3, 1905.

Page 549 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.