Editing Denison, Texas (section)

==History==
Denison was founded in 1872 in conjunction with the [[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad]] (MKT) or "Katy" [[Train station|depot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hed04|title=DENISON, TX|first=MINOR|last=DAVID|date=12 June 2010|website=www.tshaonline.org}}</ref> It was named after wealthy Katy vice president [[George Denison (American politician)|George Denison]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smalltownbigart.com/history1.htm|title=Introductory history of Denison Texas<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=2007-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625134302/http://www.smalltownbigart.com/history1.htm|archive-date=2007-06-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> Because the town was established close to where the MKT crossed the [[Red River of the South|Red River]] (both important conduits of transportation in the industrial era), it came to be an important commercial center in the [[American frontier|19th-century American West]]. In 1875, [[Doc Holliday]] had offices in Denison.

[[File:Rusk Avenue looking north, Denison, Texas.jpg|thumb|left|Rusk Avenue looking north (postcard, ''circa'' 1911)]]

During the [[phylloxera]] epidemic of the mid-19th century, which destroyed the vast majority of [[wine grapes]] in Europe, Denison [[horticulture|horticulturalist]] [[Thomas Volney Munson|T.V. Munson]] pioneered methods in creating phylloxera-resistant vines, and earned induction into the [[French Legion of Honor]], as well as [[sister city]] status for Denison and [[Cognac, France]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvmunson.org/index.htm#legacy|title=T.V. Munson Vidiculture Eunology Program|access-date=2007-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221232002/http://www.tvmunson.org/index.htm#legacy|archive-date=2007-02-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1901, the first electric "[[Interurban]]" railway in Texas, the Denison and Sherman Railway, was completed between Denison and [[Sherman, Texas|Sherman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqe12|title=ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS|first=RIEDER, ROBERT|last=A.|date=12 June 2010|website=www.tshaonline.org}}</ref>

In 1915, [[Kentucky]]-based evangelist [[Mordecai Ham]] held a revival meeting in Denison, which resulted in 1,100 professions of faith in [[Jesus Christ]].<ref>Jerry Hopkins of [[East Texas Baptist University]], "Evangelist Mordecai F. Ham's West Texas Meetings, 1903–1940", paper at [[East Texas Historical Association]] and [[West Texas Historical Association]] joint meeting in [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], Texas, February 26, 2010</ref>

Denison played host to 20th-century notables such as the [[Marx Brothers]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leninimports.com/marx_brothers.html|title=the marx brothers - biography|website=www.leninimports.com}}</ref> and President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], who was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison.<ref>{{cite book| last=D'Este| first=Carlo| title=Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life |year=2003 |place=New York |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-8050-5687-4 |pages=21–22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RCeteK7LEiYC&pg=PA21}}</ref>