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.

Simpson, an incorporated town of Mitchell county, is located on the Union Pacific R. R. and the Solomon river in Logan township, 12 miles southeast of Beloit, the county seat. It has a bank, a flour mill, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 211. The town was founded in 1879 under the name of Brittsville, but the name was changed in 1882.

Page 697 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.