The New International Encyclopædia/Lincoln (Kansas)

LINCOLN. A city and the county-seat of Lincoln County, Kan., about 150 miles west of Topeka; on the Saline River, and on the Union Pacific Railroad. It has fine school and county buildings, and is the seat of the Kansas Christian College, opened in 1882. The city carries on a considerable trade in grain, produce, live stock, etc., and there are grain-elevators and flour-mills, and extensive quarries of fine limestone. Population, in 1890, 1100; in 1900, 1262.