Shepherd

Shepherd is a city in Texas, United States. Originated in region of Old Drew's Landing, a Trinity River port for pilgrims acquiring merchandise and sending cotton, tobacco, and different items to business sectors. An early close-by group was Big Creek. Into these pioneer settlements came Houston East and West Texas Railroad speculators, including Benjamin A. Shepherd of Houston, who in 1875 platted townsite here, naming it for himself. A pioneer doctor was Dr. William Herbert Beazley ; Mrs. Jessie Fain worked an early lodging; Mrs. Jane Langham showed first state funded school session, in Methodist church building. James Ephraim Tribe, a local of Canada, came here in 1895, was a woodworker, pine box creator, millwright, and wheelwright.