Editing Kirkman, Iowa (section)

==History==
Kirkman had its start by the building of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad through that territory.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rk40AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA272 | title=Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, Volume 1 | publisher=B.F. Bowen | author=White, Edward Speer | year=1915 | pages=272}}</ref>

Kirkman was established by the Western Town Lot Company in 1880, and incorporated in 1892.  The town was named after M.M. Kirkman, a railroad official, and the first house in the town was Kirkman House.<ref>{{cite book | last = Savage | first = Tom | title = A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names | publisher = University of Iowa Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781587297595 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DxagLIZHNv4C&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3A%22Tom%20Savage%22&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kirkman/kpbciowa.htm |title=Kirkman, Iowa |publisher=rootsweb}}</ref>