Jesse P. Loving

Loving's public life ran through a newspaper as well as the courthouse. In 1884 he and three partners began publishing the Sherman Daily and Weekly Herald, which the Handbook of Texas says carried the views of the county's farmers. He backed the Grange and the Farmers' Alliance and managed the Alliance mill at Sherman for years. Reconstruction policies had removed him as county treasurer after the war; once the Amnesty Act of 1872 passed he won the office back, and held it for seven consecutive terms. The auditorium in Sherman's Fair Park is named for him.

What the plaque says

Jesse P. Loving (1836-1919) Missouri native Jesse "Jess" P. Loving came to Texas with his family in 1847. They settled first near relatives in Denton County, and moved to Sherman in Grayson County in 1852. Loving married Lydia Ellen Bomar in 1859. A Confederate veteran, he became a prominent civic leader, serving multiple terms as county treasurer and state representative. In 1879 Loving was the driving force behind the establishment of the Old Settlers Association of Grayson County. Jesse and Lydia Loving were charter members of the Houston Street Christian Church and were the parents of nine children. RECORDED-2000

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 9.4 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.
• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
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• Eisenhower State Park — 12 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.
• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 24 mi
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