DENISON, a city of Grayson county, Texas, U.S.A., 84m. N. by E. of Dallas, and 4m. from the Red river, the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma. It is on Federal highway 75, and is served by the Frisco, the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, the Southern Pacific and the Texas and Pacific railways. Pop. (192o) 17,065 (18% negroes), and was 13,85o in 193o by the Federal census. It is an important railway centre, and the collecting and distributing point for large ship ments of fruit, peanuts, wheat and cotton. The manufacturing industries, which had an output in 1927 valued at $4,250,791, include railway repair shops, freight-car construction shops, bridge works, planing and flour mills, cotton and cottonseed-oil mills, an oil refinery and wagon works. Denison was settled by north erners in 1872, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway reached this point, and was named after George Denison, a director of the railway. It was incorporated as a city in 1891.