Transcribed from volume I 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.

Cedar, one of the principal towns of Smith county, is a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R. in Harvey township, about 15 miles southwest of Smith Center, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice with one rural route, express and telegraph offices, a bank, a grain elevator, a hotel, telephone connections, a graded school, Christian and Methodist churches, and in 1910 reported a population of 400. Being located in the Solomon river valley, in a fertile agricultural district, it is an important trading center and shipping point. The name was formerly Cedarville.

Page 301 from volume I 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 May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.