Belgian native Victor Joseph Josselet (1846-1946) immigrated to the United States in 1873 with his brothers Felix and Paul, worked as a coal miner in Chicago, then bought a small farm in Sherman, Grayson County. There he met and married Catherine Hugon (1860-1928), a native of Rosario Oriental, Uruguay. After living 18 years in Gainesville, Cooke County, and raising nine children, the family moved to Haskell County. In 1900 Victor bought a large tract of land between Weinert and Haskell and began ranching and farming, building a large home, barns, outbuildings, and water tanks, while the family also kept a home in Haskell so the children could attend Haskell schools and the Methodist Church. In 1906 the Wichita Valley Railroad extended its line from Wichita Falls to Haskell and completed a connection to Abilene in 1908. That year the railroad paid Josselet $350 for a siding on a strip of land 100 feet wide, 50 feet on each side of the railroad line. Josselet Switch connected area farms and ranches to national markets and became an important cattle shipping point to the stockyards at Fort Worth and Kansas City, with an empty boxcar kept there for loading cattle. The switch also gained a depot, grocery store, and an oil and gasoline refueling station for equipment. Each Josselet child inherited a 200 acre tract, and the families helped support the growth of the area, including the Belew, Gilliam, Powell, Meyers, and Pleasant Valley schools and the Josselet Home Demonstration Club. Later, cattle auction barns in Haskell, Seymour, and Munday contributed to the community's decline, but most of the Josselet family's original land remains in the hands of descendants.