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.

Gridley, one of the important little towns of Coffey county, is located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads in Liberty township, about 11 miles southwest of Burlington, the county seat. It has banking facilities, telegraph and express offices, a money order postoffice with three rural routes, and a good retail trade. The population according to the 1910 census report was 250.

Page 796 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.