EMPORIA, a city of eastern Kansas, U.S.A., on the Neosho river, Tom. S.W. of Topeka; the county seat of Lyon county. It is on Federal highway 505, and is served by the Missouri Kansas-Texas and the Santa Fe railways. The population at the State census of 1925 was 12,243; 1930 it was 14,067. The city has railroad shops and other manufacturing industries, with an aggregate output valued in 1927 at $1,185,901; but it is primarily an educational centre and a commercial metropolis for a large agricultural and stock-raising region. The original State normal school of Kansas, established at Emporia in 1863, became the Kansas State teachers' college of Emporia in 2923, and has an enrolment of over 5,00o. The College of Emporia (enrolment about Soo) is a Presbyterian co-educational institution, estab lished in 1882. Emporia was settled in 1856 and incorporated as a city in 1870. It is the home of William Allen White (b. 1868, in Emporia), who in 1894 bought the Emporia Gazette (established 1890) and became its editor.