Editing Giltner, Nebraska (section)

==Naming history==
In 1886, the Lincoln Land Company purchased land in the Union township. The Lincoln Land Company's business was to purchase land along the railroad and develop towns along the line. In May, a town was platted and named "Huntington", after an employee's home town in Pennsylvania.<ref name=casde>Sherard, Gerald E. [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/hamilton/giltner/ "Giltner--Hamilton County".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311063112/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/hamilton/giltner/ |date=March 11, 2014 }} [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska... Our Towns.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123132824/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php |date=November 23, 2011 }} Retrieved March 10, 2014.</ref>

In February 1887, the post office asked that the town's name be changed, due to the original name's similarity to [[Hartington, Nebraska]]. The town was accordingly given the name "Bromfield". By 1890, there was a local newspaper called the ''Bromfield Bulletin'', as well as a number of stores and services, a lumberyard, two grain elevators, a school, a saloon and a church. At this time, the population of Bromfield was just under 200 people.<ref name=casde/>

The town was renamed again in 1895, again at the request of the post office, and again because of its similarity to that of another town: [[Bloomfield, Nebraska]]. The new name was chosen to honor H. M. Giltner, the minister who had established the town's Presbyterian church.<ref name=casde/>