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.

Tyro, a town of Montgomery county, is located in Caney township on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 26 miles south of Independence, the county seat. It is a thriving little city having more than doubled in population in the last ten years. It was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1906. It is located in the gas fields; a shipping point for grain, live stock and farm produce; has a bank and a large local trade; is supplied with express and telegraph offices, and has a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population according to the census of 1910 was 603.

Page 823 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.