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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONHAM  , a

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town and the
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county-seat of Fannin county,
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Texas, U.S.A., about 14 M . S. of the Red
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river, in the
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north-
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east
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part of the
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state, and 70 M . N. of
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Dallas . Pop . (189o) 3361; (1900) 5042 (1223 being negroes) ; (1910),4844 . It served by the
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Missouri,
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Kansas & Texas, and the Texas & Pacific
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railways . Bonham is the seat of Carlton
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College (
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Christian), a woman's college founded in 1867; and its high school is one of the best in the state . It is a trading and
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shipping centre of an extensive farming territory devoted to the raising of live-stock and to the growing of
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cotton,
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Indian
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corn,
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fruit, &c . It has large cotton gins and compresses, a large cotton
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mill,
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flour
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mills,
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canning and
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ice factories, railway repair shops, planing mills and
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carriage
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works . The town was named in
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honour of J . B . Bonham, a native of
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South Carolina, who was killed in the Alamo .

The first

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settlement here was made in 1836 . The town was incorporated in 1850, and was reincorporated in 1886 .

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