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Sherman
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 The Sherman Courier Wednesday, August 15, 1917 pg. 28 Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Some of the Early History of the Courier Fifty years ago the tenth day of last May The Sherman Courier was first published and it was at that time the only paper in Grayson county. The Courier was founded by Kit Owsley and Charles Miller - one a "yankee" and the other a "confederate," but was soon sold to T.C. Bass and S. Hare. Later Mr. Bass sold his interest to G.A. Dickerman and Hare and Dickerman were at the helm during the stormy days of reconstruction and some idea of the problems of those days can be gleaned from the clippings of The Courier of April 20, 1869, which appear in this issue. After a few years Judge Hare sold his interest to T.J. Crook and The Courier was run either by Dickerman and Crook of Mr. Crook alone up to about 1879 or 1880, at which time it was purchased by Mr. C.B. Wandelohr, who made it a most excellent paper for a number of years. Mr. Dick Hopson, now of the Sherman Printing Company, was one of the first men (boys) in the employ of The Courier and his name appears in various capacities all along down the line, or at least for 20-25 years. While the files of The Courier we now have are not complete, we have a vast fund of information in old copies of great value and interest to the people of Grayson county. The copy of April 10th, 1869, from which the items in this issue were taken was mailed on that date to J.H. Vaden, father of Frank Vaden and Jim Vaden now here. We also have a copy dated June 2, 1873, which is the first daily paper ever issued in Sherman. This copy bears the signature of G.A. Dickerman, it having been written on the copy by Mr. Dickerman at the request of the late Judge J.T. Cunningham, and the copy was carefully preserved by Judge Cunningham and loand to us by him just a few days before he passed away about four years ago. We have almost a complete file of The Courier from November 1875 to 1883. On October 31, 1875, a fire occurred in Sherman which burned the entire south side of the square, the block east of Travis between Jones and Lamar, the entire east side of the square except where Keith's now is, and a good part of the block in which the Murphy building is located. The Courier was one of the many losers in this fire and it was not until November 20th, 1875 that they were able to resume publication. The Courier's account of the fire then published giving the names of all those who sustained a loss therein and the amount of insurance carried appears in this issue under the heading of Clippings of 1875, and there are many items from old copies in this issue, some general in character and some personal, all of which are impressive and far reaching in effect, especially to the older settlers and their families and friends. Sherman History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |