J. G. McCathron was born in New York in 1825, came to Nemaha Co., Nebraska, then to Missouri, and to Kansas in 1870. He filed no and proved up on the SW4 of Section 9, July 30, 1875, one mile north of Norway. The family's first home was a sod house. Mr. McCathron had a large family. He was a prominent man in early township affairs. He named the town and township for the first settlers, a group of ten Norwegians who came from Norway in Europe, was the first Postmaster, first Justice of the Peace, and a government agent during the first hard years. He distributed food and clothing after the grasshopper invasion. He served on the earliest township and school boards and in every capacity where he was needed. John McCathron was a captain in the Mexican and Civil Wars.
His daughter Cynthia was born in Missouri and came with her parents to Norway in 1870. She married Sanford Scrivner in 1879. Scrivner had purchased school land a mile north of Norway in 1878. His father had a homestead five miles east of Clyde and his ancestors were originally from Germany. They were the parents of two children: Robert, who lives in Scandia, and Bessie Cook, who lives in Mankato.
Robert married Miss Katherine Hay; her parents were John and Katherine McGuire Hay. Her father came from Scotland and homesteaded south and east of Scandia in 1871. The next year, her mother and four children and her sister Margaret Lowden came to the homestead. When their son Robert died her father gave an acre of land and later another acre which is now the Poplar Grove Cemetery. Robert Hay was the first burial there and now most of the Hay family are buried in Poplar Grove.
Sanford Scrivner died in 1933 and Cynthia, his wife, in 1954. They lived many years in Norway Township then bought land in White Rock and lived there a few years. Both are buried in White Rock Cemetery.
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