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Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. It is seventy-five miles north of Dallas. The population was 22,816 at the 2010 census.〔(Population Finder )〕 Denison is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also a part of the Texoma region. ==History== Denison was founded in 1872 in conjunction with the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) or "Katy" depot.〔(Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "Denison, Texas" )〕 It was named after the wealthy Katy vice president George Denison.〔(Introductory history of Denison Texas )〕 Because the town was established at the intersection of the MKT and the Red River (both important conduits of transportation in the industrial era), it came to be an important commercial center in the 19th century American West. In 1875, Doc Holliday had offices in Denison. During the phylloxera epidemic of the mid-19th century, which destroyed the vast majority of wine grapes in Europe, Denison horticulturalist 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.〔(T.V. Munson Vidiculture Eunology Program )〕 In 1901 the first electric "Interurban" railway in Texas, the Denison and Sherman Railway, was completed between Denison and Sherman, Texas.〔(Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "Electric Interurban Railways" (accessed March 31, 2007) )〕 In 1915, the Kentucky-based evangelist Mordecai Ham held a revival meeting in Denison, which resulted in 1,100 professions of faith in Jesus Christ.〔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, February 26, 2010〕 Denison played host to 20th century notables such as the Marx Brothers〔(Marx Brothers Biography )〕 and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison〔Dwight D. Eisenhower〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denison, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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