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.

Riley, one of the incorporated towns of Riley county, is located in Madison township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., 20 miles northwest of Manhattan, the county seat. It has banking facilities, a weekly newspaper (the Regent), a monthly religious publication, express and telegraph offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population in 1910 was 500. The first store was opened at this point in 1871 by C. W. Hessebroeck. The town was formerly known as "Riley Center."

Page 583 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.