Tom Randolph

Randolph's later career was in St. Louis. A Whitewright Sun obituary, transcribed for West Hill Cemetery, says he became cashier of the Sherman bank in 1872 and its president in 1886, then president of the Commonwealth Trust Company of St. Louis in 1903. In 1913 he was elected president of the National Bank of Commerce there and later became chairman. Wilson N. Jones's will named him a trustee of a hospital fund. He died at his St. Louis home on January 7, 1918, and Sherman held his funeral at Travis Street Methodist Church.

What the plaque says

Tom Randolph (Nov. 13, 1854 - Jan. 8, 1918) Tennessee native Thomas Randolph came to Grayson County with his family in 1859. Groomed to be a businessman, he was invited at age 19 to join C. C. Binkley at the Merchants and Planters Bank, which grew into a very prosperous and influential financial institution. Randolph served as bank president from 1886 until his death. In that capacity, he helped attract new industry and business to Sherman, and worked to establish the city's first hospital. He also served as Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis, Missouri, but always considered Sherman his home. Recorded - 2002

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
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• 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
  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.

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