Francis Huebschmann Explained

Francis Huebschmann
State:Wisconsin
State Senate:Wisconsin
District:3rd
Term Start:January 1, 1872
Term End:January 6, 1873
Predecessor:Lyman Morgan
Successor:Frederick W. Cotzhausen
State Senate1:Wisconsin
District1:5th
Term Start1:January 2, 1871
Term End1:January 1, 1872
Predecessor1:William Pitt Lynde
Successor1:Philo Belden
Term Start2:September 1, 1862
Term End2:January 5, 1863
Predecessor2:Charles Quentin
Successor2:William K. Wilson
State Senate3:Wisconsin
District3:19th
Term Start3:January 6, 1851
Term End3:January 3, 1853
Predecessor3:John B. Smith
Successor3:Benjamin Allen
Party:Democratic
Birth Name:Franz Hübschmann
Birth Date:19 April 1817
Birth Place:Riethnordhausen, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Death Place:Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Restingplace:Forest Home Cemetery
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Spouse:Creszentia (Hess) Huebschmann
(died 1913)
Children:Adolph Huebschmann
(b. 1859; died 1921)
Relatives:W. M. L. de Wette (uncle)
Profession:physician, surgeon, politician
Allegiance:United States
Branch:United States Volunteers
Union Army
Rank:Surgeon
Serviceyears:1862–1864
Unit:26th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
Battles:American Civil War

Francis (Franz) Huebschmann (April 19, 1817March 21, 1880) was a German American immigrant, physician, and Democratic politician. He served four and a half years in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing the northern half of Milwaukee County, and was a noted surgeon for the Union Army during the American Civil War.[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. He served three periods as Wisconsin State Senator, first from 1851 to 1852, second in 1862, and finally frrom 1871 to 1872. From 1853 until 1857, he was superintendent of the affairs of the Native Americans of the northern United States.

During the Civil War, he entered the Union Army in 1862 as surgeon of the 26th Wisconsin 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 and References

  1. Web site: Dr. Franz Huebschmann, Company . 2012-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141205052132/http://www.russscott.com/~rscott/26thwis/franzhub.htm . 2014-12-05 . dead .
  2. Web site: Wisconsin Historical Society-Franz Huebschmann . 2013-03-08 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215513/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1429&keyword=huebschmann . dead .
  3. Web site: Germans . 2023-03-14 . . 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..