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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891; page 278.


                    JOSEPH T. ABSHIRE, M. D.
                         Abbeville, LA

Dr. Abshire was born in
Vermilion parish, October, 1868. He is the son of John Abshire,
Jr. Dr. Abshire has received the highest possible educational
advantages from his earliest years.  At the age of fifteen he had
made considerable progress at the school of St. the Stanislaus,
at Bay St. Louis, and from there he went to Grand Coteau, where 
he attended St. Charles College, graduating in the literary
course at the age of nineteen years, 1887. His parents were in
affluent circumstances and he might well have returned home to
his plantation and lived an easy life, but his professional
ambitions would not permit him to idle any time and he at once
entered upon the study of medicine, studying for a short period
under a preceptor, when he entered the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, at Baltimore, Md., from which he graduated in 1889. In
the study of his profession, as well as that of the literary
course, he was remarkably thorough. He made a special study of
the eve, ear and throat. Immediately after having graduated he
located on his plantation, close to Abbeville, where he remained
until a few months since, when, finding his profession largely on
the increase, he moved to Abbeville in order to be more cen-
trally located. Dr. Abshire is an enthusiast in his profession
and still pursues his studies on all studies tending to the
advancement of his profession. He is a member of the Vermilion
Parish Medical Society, of which he is president. He is also a 
member of the Attakapas Medical Society. Dr. Abshire is not only
popular among the people for whom he does practice, but stands
high in the esteem of the best physicians in this section of the
State. In politics the Doctor is a democrat. He is medical
examiner of the Catholic Knights of America at this place. 
Dr. Abshire married Miss Ophelia Bourque, a native of Abbeville,
October, 1889. They are the parents of one child, Robert LeRoy.