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.

Partridge, a thriving little town of Reno county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific railroads in Center township, 11 miles southwest of Hutchinson, the county seat. It is an important shipping point for grain, live stock and produce, has a bank, an elevator, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. It was laid out early in 1886 and was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1906. The population—according to the census of 1910, was 246.

Page 446 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.