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.

Stanley, a village in the eastern part of Johnson county, is located on the Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield R. R., 8 miles southeast of Olathe, the county seat. It is one of the new towns which has grown up since the building of the railroad, and is the shipping and supply town for a rich farming district in the eastern part of the county. There are several general stores, an implement and hardware house, hotel, lumber yard, money order postoffice, telegraph and express facilities, public school and churches. It is one of the progressive towns of the border counties and in 1910 had a population of 200.

Page 739 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.