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

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BONHAM , a See also:

TOWN

town and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Fannin county, See also:

TEXAS

Texas, U.S.A., about 14 M. S. of the Red See also:

RIVER

river, in the See also:

north-See also:

east See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, and 70 M. N. of See also:

Dallas. Pop. (189o) 3361; (1900) 5042 (1223 being negroes) ; (1910),4844. It served by the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri, See also:

KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas & Texas, and the Texas & Pacific See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. Bonham is the seat of Carlton See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (See also:

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 See also:

SHIPPING

shipping centre of an extensive farming territory devoted to the raising of live-stock and to the growing of See also:

cotton, See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn, See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit, &c. It has large cotton gins and compresses, a large cotton See also:

mill, See also:

FLOUR

flour See also:

mills, See also:

canning and See also:

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice factories, railway repair shops, planing mills and See also:

CARRIAGE

carriage See also:

WORKS

works. The town was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of J. B. Bonham, a native of See also:

South Carolina, who was killed in the Alamo.

The first See also:

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

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