. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . he hill a mile west of the present townof Callaway. The first election was held at the Goodyear sheep ranch, nearthe old Finch-Hatton ranch, a short distance above Triumph. The first wed-ding in the community was that of Miss Lydia M. Graves to Mr. George , May 25, 1881, and the first death that of Bennie, adopted son of Mrs. Graves, March 17, 1881. The county was organized into townships in 1883, and the territory em-bracing the entire southwestern part of the county was named Del
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . he hill a mile west of the present townof Callaway. The first election was held at the Goodyear sheep ranch, nearthe old Finch-Hatton ranch, a short distance above Triumph. The first wed-ding in the community was that of Miss Lydia M. Graves to Mr. George , May 25, 1881, and the first death that of Bennie, adopted son of Mrs. Graves, March 17, 1881. The county was organized into townships in 1883, and the territory em-bracing the entire southwestern part of the county was named Delight town- AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 273 ship by N. M. Morgan, the first supervisor. Out of the original townshipthe towns of Grant. Elim and Wayne have since been formed, leaving thetownship of Delight with seventy-eight scjuare miles. At the time of thesettlement here there was no other settlement between the Platte valley andVictoria creek. During the few years that followed newcomers arrived almostweekly until there was quite a community. In 1885 Mr. Graves induced John. The First Building in Callaway. Moran, a merchant at Olax, to build a store on his farm, which stood on thenortheast corner of the property now owned by John Frederick. The ques-tion as to who is entitled to the credit of founding the town of Callaway hasbeen often disputed, and will perhaps never be fully determined to the satis-faction of all, but from what we can learn, J. Woods Smith is fully entitledto whatever honor the distinction confers, as it was in his brain that thescheme originated which materialized in the laying out of the town a fewmonths later. As Mr. Smith tells it, Callaway was first conceived in thelobby of the Paxton hotel at Omaha, in the fall of 1885. While reading themorning paper, he chanced to come across an item stating that the Omaha &Republican Valley railroad was going to survey a line up the South Loupriver the next spring, to intersect with another road wh
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