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.

Mathewson, a post hamlet of Labette county, is located on the Neosho river and on the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R., in Neosho township, 12 miles north of Oswego, the county seat. It had a population of 25 in 1910. The plat for the town was made in 1879. William Downs erected a building, in which he lived and kept a store and the postoffice. The railroad name is Strauss.

Page 248 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.