Francis Huebschmann
Francis Huebschmann | |
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Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 3rd district | |
In office January 10, 1872 – January 8, 1873 | |
Preceded by | Lyman Morgan |
Succeeded by | Frederick W. Cotzhausen |
Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 5th district | |
In office January 11, 1871 – January 10, 1872 | |
Preceded by | William Pitt Lynde |
Succeeded by | Philo Belden |
In office September 1, 1862 – January 14, 1863 | |
Preceded by | Charles Quentin |
Succeeded by | William K. Wilson |
Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 19th district | |
In office January 8, 1851 – January 12, 1853 | |
Preceded by | John B. Smith |
Succeeded by | Benjamin Allen |
Personal details | |
Born | Franz Hübschmann April 19, 1817 Riethnordhausen, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
Died | March 21, 1880 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 62)
Resting place | Forest Home Cemetery Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Creszentia (Hess) Huebschmann (died 1913) |
Children | Adolph Huebschmann (b. 1859; died 1921) |
Profession | physician, surgeon, politician |
Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Branch/service | ![]() Union Army |
Years of service | 1862–1864 |
Rank | Surgeon |
Unit | 26th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry |
Battles/wars | American Civil War
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Francis (Franz) Huebschmann (April 19, 1817 – March 21, 1880) was a German American physician and politician, and a noted surgeon of the American Civil War for the Union Army.[1][2]
Biography[]
Francis Huebschmann was born in Riethnordhausen, in what was then the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (in modern day Germany). He was educated at Erfurt and Weimar, and graduated in medicine at Jena in 1841.
He came to the United States in 1842, and settled in Milwaukee, where he resided until his death.
He was school commissioner from 1843 until 1851, a member of the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846, and served on the committee on suffrage and elective franchise. He was a special champion of the provision in the constitution granting foreigners equal rights with Americans.[3] He was Democratic Party presidential elector in 1848, for Lewis Cass, a member of the Milwaukee City Council and a Milwaukee County supervisor from 1848 until 1867, and Wisconsin State Senator in 1851/2, 1862, and 1871/2. From 1853 until 1857, he was superintendent of the affairs of the First Nations of the northern United States.
During the Civil War, he entered the Union Army in 1862 as surgeon of the 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was surgeon in charge of a division at the Battle of Chancellorsville, and of the XI Corps at Gettysburg, where he was held by the Confederates for three days. He was also at the Battle of Chattanooga, in charge of the Corps hospital in Lookout Valley in 1864, and brigade surgeon in the Atlanta Campaign. He was honorably discharged in that year, and, returning to Milwaukee, became connected with the United States General Hospital.
Notes[]
- ^ "Dr. Franz Huebschmann, Company". Archived from the original on 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
- ^ Wisconsin Historical Society-Franz Huebschmann
- ^ [1]"The most important Democratic leader in the early German community, physician Franz Hübschmann,championed the cause of voting rights for white immigrant men who were not citizens, believing that they should be able to vote as long as they had lived in the state for a year and had begun the naturalization process."
References[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- 1817 births
- 1880 deaths
- Physicians from Wisconsin
- Union Army officers
- University of Jena alumni
- Politicians from Milwaukee
- German emigrants to the United States
- People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War
- Wisconsin city council members
- County supervisors in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin state senators
- 19th-century American politicians
- American Civil War surgeons