Transcribed from volume I 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.

Collyer, one of the principal towns of Trego county, is located in the township of the same name and is a station on the Union Pacific R. R. 14 miles west of Wakeeney, the county seat. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, express and telegraph offices, telephone connections, Baptist, Catholic and Congregational churches, good public schools, well stocked general stores, a lumber yard, etc. Collyer was first settled in 1879, and in 1910 reported a population of 300.

Pages 390-391 from volume I 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 May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.