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Sherman (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Grayson co., Tex.; on the Texas and Pacific, the Houston and Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads; 64 miles N. of Dallas. It contains Austin College (Pres.), North Texas Female College (M. E.), Carr-Carlton Christian College for Women, public library, Y. M.

C. A. Building, Federal buildings, waterworks, electric lights, National and other banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. (It has cotton gins, a cotton-seed oil mill, machine shops, foundries, flour mills, planing mills, carriage and wagon factories, marble and brick works, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,412; (1920) 15,031.