Leonardville, one of the incorporated cities of Riley county, is located in Bala township on the Union Pacific R. R., 26 miles northwest of Manhattan. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Monitor), telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 525. The town was founded in 1881 and was first called Leonard in honor of Leonard T. Smith, formerly president of the Kansas Central R. R. Four general stores and a number of other lines of business were at once established.
Page 139 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.
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