A. C. , Dr OLIVER

Dr Absolom Carter "A.C."
Birth: June 23, 1839
Butler County, Alabama
Death: March 4, 1929
Douglassville, Cass County, Texas
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Dr. Absalom Carter Oliver was a pioneer physician of Texas. He was born 23 Jun 1839 in Butler County, Alabama. In the later part of 1854 he moved with his parents Samuel and Eliza Oliver to Douglassville, Cass Co., Texas. His early education was obtained in the private schools of that time. His medical education at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. His first practice was in Shelby County, Texas, in 1859-1860. He left there and entered the Medical University of Augusta, Georgia where he received a degree if Doctor of Medicine in 1861.

Dr. Oliver returned to him home in Douglassville. He enlisted in the Confederate army as a private. CSA Co. D, 1st Regiment. May 27, 1861 at Linden, Texas. He was detailed as an assistant surgeon June 27, 1862. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant (jr) November 8th, 1862; Signed muster roll October 31, 1863 as Commander of Co D, 1st Texas Brigade; Surrendered April 9th, 1865 at Appomattox Court House. Inasmuch as he fought all through the Civil War, it is presumed that he fought in all the major battles engaged in by Hood's Texas Brigade -- Gaines Mill, Second Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and The Wilderness. The First Texas Regiment was one of the regiments in Hood's famous Texas Brigade.

Dr. Oliver returned to his home in Douglassville in 1865 to devote his life to the service of his community as a physician and to his State of Texas as a Legislator.

He was married to Miss. Frances Berkeley Ringgold of Batesville, Arkansas in 1866. To this marriage six children were born: Lucreatia (Lutie), Laura (Chick), Harry, Dorothy (Dollie), Absalom (Ab) and Louie. He married second wife Miss Mary Elizabeth Brooks in 1892. To this marriage one son was born, William Brooks Oliver.

Dr. Oliver was a member of the Cass County Medical Society, the State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. For a period of over forty eight years he served Douglassville and its vicinity as a physician. During this period he took graduate wok at various times in the school of Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received his first medical training.

In addition to his interest in medicine he took active part in political affairs, serving as representative of the Seventeenth Legislature in 1880, the twenty fifth Legislature in 1896 and the Twenty sixth legislature in 1898; In 1913 he was elected to the State Senate, succeeding the Honorable Horace Vaughan. While serving in the Legislature he was chairman of the Education Committee and served on the Board of Regents for Texas A and M, also served on the Revenue and Taxation, Public Health, Vital Statistics, and State Asylums Committees.

Dr. Oliver was appointed Superintendent of the Confederate Home in Austin, Texas in 1913 and continued in this capacity until 1917, he resigned and returned to his home in Douglassvile.

(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas.)

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