Bonham Daily Favorite

Sources disagree on when this paper became a daily. The plaque says 1892, the Handbook of Texas gives May 2, 1910, and a county history credits Dr. J. M. Terry, who had published the Simoon in Honey Grove, with moving to Bonham and converting his weekly. Colonel J. Chenoweth, a Kentuckian who had ridden with John Morgan, bought a half interest and edited it. In 1922 the Fannin County Favorite merged with the Bonham News. R. M. Cantrell joined in 1939 and wrote the daily column Odds and Ends into the 1970s.

What the plaque says

Bonham Daily Favorite In 1887 Dr. J. M. Terry, who gave up medicine for journalism, established the "Weekly Fannin Favorite." He expanded in 1892 by starting this newspaper, the oldest daily publication in Fannin County. For 45 years its offices were in the 500 block of North Main before moving here in 1953. Although ownership has changed many times, the award-winning newspaper has maintained high standards of news coverage. The "Daily Favorite" recorded the public career of Sam Rayburn (1882-1961), Congressman from this district and longtime Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. (1978)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 2.2 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 24 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Eisenhower State Park — 29 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.

More markers nearby

• Fannin County — steps away
• Constantine Lodge No. 13, A. F. & A. M. — steps away
• Site of Steger Opera House — steps away
• Confederate Commissary — steps away