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.

Hamlin, an incorporated city of the third class in Brown county, is located in the township of the same name, and is a station on the St. Joseph & Grand Island R. R. 7 miles northwest of Hiawatha, the county seat. It has a bank, a graded school, 3 churches, a number of retail stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 208. The town was laid out in 1870 and the postoffice moved from the old location 2 miles south. J. Rodgers was the first postmaster. The first school was taught by Miss Emma Fisher in 1871. The first building in the town was erected by a Mrs. Leonard, who engaged in the millinery business.

Page 805 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.