Editing David City, Nebraska (section)

==Name==
[[File:Butler County Museum, David City, Nebraska 01.jpg|thumb|left|Butler County Museum]]The origin of the name of David City is disputed.<ref name=perkey>{{cite book|title=Perkey's Nebraska Place Names|author=Elton A. Perkey|edition=4th|publisher=Nebraska State Historical Society|page=22|date=2003}}</ref> One source claims that David City was named after the first [[Governor of Nebraska]], [[David Butler (politician)|David Butler]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n99 100]}}</ref><ref name=perkey /> Another source says that David City was named in honor of Phoebe Miles, whose maiden name was either "David" or "Davids," because she had deeded a large tract of land for the townsite on which the courthouse now sits.<ref name=fitzpatrick>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC&pg=PA28|title=Nebraska Place-Names|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Lilian L.|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|date=1960|page=28|isbn=0803250606|access-date=December 13, 2014}}</ref><ref name=perkey /><ref name=city>{{citation|title=History|website=David City, Nebraska|url=https://www.davidcityne.com/vnews/display.v/ART/5d9e4277e83cd|quote=The courthouse site was owned by Mrs. Phoebe Davids Miles, who donated the land for the structure. The town was named in honor of her late father, William Davids of Marion, Ohio. The "s" in the name was dropped and the town became David City, the only town in the world with this name.}}</ref> A third source indicates that David City may have been named for a "Mr. Davids," a relative of William Miles, who was part owner of the townsite, and that the "s" at the end of "Davids" was dropped for convenience.<ref name=perkey /> Because details are unclear, this third explanation may be just another version of the second explanation. On its official website, David City claims the second of these explanations as the official explanation of its name.<ref name=city />