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.

Overbrook, one of the thriving towns of Osage county, is located in Elk township on the Missouri Pacific R. R. 15 miles northeast of Lyndon, the county seat. It has a weekly newspaper (the Citizen), a bank, telegraph and express offices, an international money order postoffice with four rural routes, good schools and churches. It is one of the newer towns, having been founded in 1888. The population in 1910 was 575.

Page 430 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.