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History of Linneus

The judicial seat of Linn County, a city of the fourth class, on the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City branch of the Burlington system, 105 miles from St. Joseph, and 214 miles from St. Louis, and seven miles north of Laclede, the junction of the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City, and the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroads. The site of the town was first settled in 1834, and in 1837 it was made the county seat and became known by its present name. It was incorporated in 1856 as a town, and in 1863 as a city. It is a well laid out town, and its
streets are kept in excellent condition. It has five churches, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, Christian, Baptist and Baptist (colored). There is a graded school for white children and a school for colored. The business of the town is represented by two banks, an operahouse, two hotels, two newspapers, the "Bulletin" and the "Linn County News," and about thirty-six miscellaneous business concerns, consisting of stores, lumber and coal yards, shops, etc. Population, 1899 (estimated), 1,200.