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.

Parker, an incorporated town of Linn county, is situated in the northwest portion on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R. It has a bank, several general stores, an implement house, a lumber yard, and is the shipping and supply point for a rich agricultural country. There are express and telegraph facilities, a money order postoffice with two rural routes, schools and churches, and in 1910 it had a population of 398.

Page 444 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.