CLEBURNE

cleburne, a town and the county-seat of johnson county, texas, u.s.a., 25 m. s. of fort worth. pop. (1890) 3278; (1900) 7493, including 611 negroes; (1910) 10,364. it is served by the gulf, colorado & santa fe, the missouri, kansas & texas, and the trinity & brazos valley railways. it is the centre of a prosperous farming, fruit and stock-raising region, has large railway repair shops, flour-mills, cotton gins and foundries, a canning factory and machine shops. it has a carnegie library, and st joseph's academy (roman catholic; for girls). the town was named in honour of patrick ronayne cleburne (1828-1864), a major-general of the confederate army, who was of irish birth, practised law in helena, arkansas, served at shiloh, perryville, stone river, chickamauga, missionary ridge, ring-gold gap, jonesboro and franklin, and was killed in the last-named battle; he was called the "stonewall of the west."