Francis Huebschmann

Francis Huebschmann
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 (1817-04-19)April 19, 1817 Riethnordhausen, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Died	March 21, 1880(1880-03-21) (aged 62) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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	United States
Branch/service	United States Army Union Army
Years of service	1862–1864
Rank	Surgeon
Unit	26th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
Battles/wars	American Civil War Chancellorsville Campaign Battle of Chancellorsville Gettysburg Campaign Battle of Gettysburg Chattanooga Campaign Atlanta Campaign

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.

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. 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.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Huebschmann, Francis" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.