 Dr. J. B. StinsonThe Sherman Courier
Wednesday, August 15, 1917 pg. 19 Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Dr. J.B. STINSON GIVES NAMES OF EARLY PHYSICIANS AND NOTES THE MANY CHANGES IN CUSTOMS One of the early settlers and leading physicians of Sherman is Dr. J.B. Stinson. Dr. Stinson tells about the early days and some of his old time friends: "I drove up on the public square in Sherman about 10 o'clock December 16, 1866, and I have been here ever since. One of my regrets is that I have not kept a diary of the events since I came here. When I came here I there was a dense thicket from where the Grayson Oil Mill now is to the Union Depot. Prairie chickens and deer were then all around the town. I was here long before the present court house was built and the present court house was built by Capt. L.F. Ely about 1875. Captain Ely built the first chimney I had built in Sherman. When I came here the physicians in this town were Dr. Freeman, father of Miss Thenie Freeman, one of the teachers in the public schools, Dr. W.E. Saunders, Dr. Hunter, who was a brother of Jno. W. Hunter, who was sheriff for a long time, and one other old doctor whose name I do not now just recall. In those days and long after I came here the doctors made long rides and many times have I gone over across Red river in the "Nation." In those days tough characters would sometimes come into Sherman and get drunk and try to ride into the stores and all that kind of foolishness, but all that has long since passed with a lot of other things that have been replaced with far better things. Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |