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DENISON , a See also:city of Grayson See also:county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., about 22 M. from the S. See also:bank of the Red See also:river, about 70 M. N. of See also:Dallas. Pop. (189o) 10,958; (1900) 11,807, of whom 2251 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 13,632. It is served by the See also:Houston & Texas Central, the See also:Missouri, See also:Kansas & Texas, the Texas & Pacific, and the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:San Francisco ('Frisco See also:System) See also:railways, and is connected with See also:Sherman, Texas, by an electric See also:line. Denison is the seat of the See also:Gate City business See also:college (generally known as Harshaw See also:Academy), and of St See also:Xavier's academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic). It is chiefly important as a railway centre, as a See also:collecting and distributing point for the See also:fruit, vegetables, hogs and poultry, and See also:general farming products of the surrounding region, and as a wholesale and jobbing See also:market for the upper Red river valley. It has railway repair shops, and among its manufactures are See also:cotton-See also:seed oil, cotton, machinery and foundry products, See also:flour, wooden-See also:ware, and See also:dairy products. In 1905 its factory products were valued at $1,234,956, 47•o % more than in 1900. Denison was settled by Northerners at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the construction of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway to this point in 1872, and was named in See also:honour of See also:George Denison (1822-1876), a director of the railway; it became a city in 1891, and in 1907 adopted the See also:commission See also:form of See also:government.
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