Editing Sheridan, Arkansas (section)

===Founding and the early 20th century (1870–1941)===
[[File:General Philip Henry Sheridan during the 1880s.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[United States Army]] Lieutenant-General [[Philip Sheridan]] in the [[1880s]], for whom the city is [[Namesake|named]].]]
Founded on January 23, 1870,<ref>{{Citation|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28|publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]|place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> Sheridan was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] as a [[municipality]] by the Grant County Quorum Court on August 26, 1887. Lieutenant-General [[Philip Sheridan]], for whom the city is [[Namesake|named]], served as the eighth [[Commanding General of the United States Army|commanding general of the U.S. Army]] from 1883 until his death in 1888.<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please DO NOT CHANGE link to "General (United States)" or "General of the Army (United States)" as it would be historically inaccurate. At the time of municipal incorporation (August 26, 1887), Philip Sheridan was still a lieutenant general. He would not be promoted to the grade of "General of the Army" for another ten months (June 1, 1888). Thank you. --><ref name="eoa" /> At the beginning of the [[20th century]], a railroad passed through Sheridan south into [[Dallas County, Arkansas|Dallas County]]. Owned by E. S. McCarty, it transported both freight and passengers for hire.<ref>''McCarty v. Nelson'', 195 S.W. 689, 691 (Ark. 1917).</ref>

Sheridan was home to Missionary Baptist College, a [[Landmarkism|landmark baptist]] educational institution from 1917 until 1934 when it was forced to close due to financial circumstances resulting from the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]]. A 1920 bulletin published by the college underscored its goal "to teach and emphasize the very principles for which the real [[Baptists]] of Arkansas stand and for which true Baptists have stood for almost nineteen centuries."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Goolsby |first=Elwin |date=April 1991 |title=The Rise and Fall of the Missionary Baptist College |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~henle/Baptist/ArkCollege.htm |journal=Grassroots - Journal of the Grant County Museum |access-date=June 3, 2012}}</ref> The [[Missionary Baptist Seminary]] was established by [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]'s Antioch Baptist Church in September 1934 to succeed the Missionary Baptist College after its closure.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Missionary Baptist Seminary |url=http://mb-seminary.net/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916235058/http://mb-seminary.net/index.html |archive-date=September 16, 2012 |access-date=June 3, 2012 |website=Missionary Baptist Seminary}}</ref>