Emporia, capital of Lyon county, Kansas, on the Neosho, a tributary of the Cottonwood River, 61 miles SSW. of Topeka by rail. It has a foundry and several flouring-mills. Pop. 7759.
Emporia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 331
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