TOLSON, F. R., M. D., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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F. R. TOLSON, M. D., LAFAYETTE.--The subject of this sketch is a practising
[sic] physician at Lafayette, Louisiana.  He is the son of Dr. T. T. and Ann
(Tribble) Tolson.  His father was born in Alabama, 1830, and received his
education at the university of that State.  He was married June 5, 1849, and
became the father of six children-three sons and three daughters-our subject
being the eldest.  Dr. T. T. Tolson was a successful practitioner.  During the
war he served as surgeon in the Confederate army and had charge of a hospital.

Dr. E.[sic] R. Tolson was educated in the parish schools of Lafayette,
Louisiana.  His medical education was received at the medical department,
University of Louisiana, New Orleans, from which he received his diploma. 
After the completion of his studies he located in Lafayette parish, where he
has met with deserved success.  He is a prominent member of the Attakapas
Medical Association.  Dr. Tolson was married in 1877 to Miss Martha Young. 
They are the parents of five children--Louisa,  John.,  Julia,  Challie, 
Thomas.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
247-248.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.