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.

Goddard, an incorporated city of the third class in Sedgwick county, is a station on the Atcaison,[sic] Topeka & Sante Fe R. R. 14 miles west of Wichita, the county seat. It has a bank, grain elevators, general stores, graded schools, Baptist and Methodist churches, telegraph, express and telephone service, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The name was formerly Blendon. In 1910 Goddard reported a population of 225.

Page 760 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.