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.

Vernon, one of the villages of Woodson county, is in Everett township and is a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R. 10 miles northeast of Yates Center, the county seat. It has the main lines of mercantile interests, is supplied with express and telegraph offices, and has a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 100. It is the shipping and supply center for the farmers of the vicinity. The name was originally Talmage, but was changed to Vernon by act of the legislature, March 9, 1891.

Page 844 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.