GREENVILLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Hunt county; Texas, U.S.A., near the headwaters of the Sabine river, 48 m . N.E. of Dallas . Pop . (190c) 686o, of whom 114 were foreign-born and 1751 were negroes; (1910) 885o . It is served by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the St Louis South-Western and the Texas Midland railways . It is an important cotton market, has gins and compresses, a large cotton seed oil refinery, and other manufactories, and is a trade centre for a rich agri-cultural district . The city owns and operates its electric-lighting plant . It is the seat of Burleson College (Baptist), founded in 1893, and i m. from the city limits, in the village of Peniel (pop . 1908, about 500), a community of " Holiness " people, are the Texas Holiness University (1898), a Holiness orphan asylum and a Holiness press . Greenville was settled in 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1875 . In 1907 the Texas legislature granted to the city a new charter establishing a commission government similar to that of Galveston .