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In 1979, I passed through Claflin, KS. Harriet Mayo sent me an article from the Claflin Clarion on the history of the town.
It states that in 1887 a town company was formed after the MO Pacific laid tracks and built a depot/town called Giles City south of the tracks. Unable to obtain land south of the tracks, the town company consisting of Judge Hamilton the surveyor, J.H. Cannon a store owner from MO, and Steve DuPree a real estate agent, bought land north of the tracks from a Mr. Williamson. Judge O.P. Hamilton named the town after his wife's maiden name. He surveyed the site and laid out the town in a corn field.
Judge Hamilton's father-in-law, H.B. Claflin of NY, operated one of the largest drygoods stores in the country at that time.
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