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.

Dillon, one of the larger villages of Dickinson county, is a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R. on the line between Jefferson and Ridge townships, about 16 miles south of Abilene, the county seat. The railroad name is Swayne Station. Dillon has a money order postoffice with one rural route, a creamery, a flour mill, some well stocked general stores, express and telegraph service, telephone connections, Methodist and Presbyterian churches and a good public school building. The population in 1910 was 161.

Page 521 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.