Francis Huebschmann

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]

Francis Huebschmann
Member of the Wisconsin Senate
from the 3rd district
In office
January 10, 1872  January 8, 1873
Preceded byLyman Morgan
Succeeded byFrederick W. Cotzhausen
Member of the Wisconsin Senate
from the 5th district
In office
January 11, 1871  January 10, 1872
Preceded byWilliam Pitt Lynde
Succeeded byPhilo Belden
In office
September 1, 1862  January 14, 1863
Preceded byCharles Quentin
Succeeded byWilliam K. Wilson
Member of the Wisconsin Senate
from the 19th district
In office
January 8, 1851  January 12, 1853
Preceded byJohn B. Smith
Succeeded byBenjamin Allen
Personal details
Born
Franz Hübschmann

(1817-04-19)April 19, 1817
Riethnordhausen, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
DiedMarch 21, 1880(1880-03-21) (aged 62)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Resting placeForest Home Cemetery
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Creszentia (Hess) Huebschmann
(died 1913)
ChildrenAdolph Huebschmann
(b. 1859; died 1921)
Professionphysician, surgeon, politician
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Union Army
Years of service1862–1864
RankSurgeon
Unit26th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

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

  1. "Dr. Franz Huebschmann, Company". Archived from the original on 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  2. Wisconsin Historical Society-Franz Huebschmann
  3. "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."

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