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Benjamin Green Selman
Dr. Benjamin Green Selman, son of Lark C. and Mary G. Selman, was born in Chambers County, Alabama, on the 15th of February, 1839, and received his primary education at Princeton, Arkansas, but finally graduated in medicine from the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, Missouri.
He came to Texas in August, 1869, and settled in Tyler, where he practiced his profession. He now lives and practices his profession in Smith County, and was nominated by the Democracy of that County for the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature, to which he was elected by a flattering majority, and was also returned to the Twenty-second Legislature by his admiring constituency.
He served as a member of the following committees in the Twenty-first Legislature: Education, Examination of Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts, State Asylums, Penitentiaries, and Irrigation. In the Twenty-second Legislature, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Health and Vital Statistics, and a member of the Committees on State Asylums, Judicial Districts, and Irrigation. It will be noted that the speaker appreciated his abilities and versatile acquirements, and placed him on important committees.
He volunteered as a private early in 1861, in Company C, Sixth regiment of infantry of Arkansas volunteers, Govan's brigade, Cleburn's division, Hardee's corps, army of Tennessee. He was first made corporal, and was finally promoted to the captaincy of his company. He was a gallant soldier, and participated in all the battles of the army of Tennessee, from Shiloh to Franklin, having been wounded eight times in the campaign, twice very seriously. He now wears in his left side a minnie ball that can be felt lodged in the muscles.
Dr. Selman was married on the 18th of February, 1867, to Miss Mary A. McFadin, of St. Louis, Missouri, and has two sons, promising young men, in their twentieth and twenty-second years. His mother was the daughter of General Green B. Talbot, who fought with Crockett in the battle of the Horseshoe, in Alabama, in the Indian wars. He owns a large amount of property in town lots, lands, etc., and is a public spirited citizen.
Source: Transcription from the book, Personnel of the Texas State Government: With Sketches of the Representative Men of Texas, by L. E. Daniell, published in 1892; located on the website, Internet Archive (http://archive.org), accessed 18 September 2024.
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