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==History== Peru was founded in 1870.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n262 155]}}</ref> It was named by E. R. Cutler, president of the town company, for his hometown of [[Peru, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rydjord|first=John|title=Kansas Place-Names|year=1972|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma|isbn=0-8061-0994-7|page=98 & 280}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4941 | title=Profile for Peru, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=6 June 2014}}</ref>
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