From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 1011-1012

DR. FRANCIS HUEBSCHMANN, was born in Riethnordhausen, Grand Dutchy of Weimer, April 19, 1817, was educated at the colleges of Erfurt and Weimar, receiving his professional education at the University of Jena, from which he graduated March 10, 1841.  He was by profession a physician.  He came to the United States in 1842 and settled in Milwaukee, where he resided until his death March 21, 1880.  Dr. HUEBSCHMANN was School Commissioner from 1843 to 1851, and a member of the First Constitutional Convention in 1846, in which he served as a faithful working member of the Committee of Suffrage and Elective Franchise.  He was the especial champion of the provision in the constitution granting to foreigners equal rights with Americans.  He was Presidential Elector of the State at large in 1848; member of the City Council and County Supervisor from 1848 to 1867, State Senator in 1851, 1852 and 1862, having been elected the latter year to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Charles QUENTIN; he was again a member of the Senate in 1871 and 1872, and was Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the North Superintendency under Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857.  Dr. HUEBESCHMANN entered the military service during the Rebellion, and was mustered in as Surgeon of the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteers in 1862; was Surgeon in charge of a division at the battle of Chancellorsville, Surgeon in charge of the Ninth Army Corps at the battle of Gettysburg, and with five hundred wounded and nine assistants, was in the hands of the rebels for three days; he was at the battle of Chattanooga; was in charge of the corps hospital in Lookout Valley in January and February 1864; was Brigade Surgeon at the front in the battles of Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta, and was honorably discharged October 1, 1864.  On returning home, he was connected with the United States General Hospital at Milwaukee until several months after peace was declared.  Dr. HUEBSCHMANN possessed a warm heart, an active mental organization, affable and courteous habits and pleasing address, and made a multitude of warm friends.  He was the first German physician in the city, one of the founders of the Banner and Volksfreund, and was especially zealous in the promotion of anything relating to the welfare and progress of his countrymen, the Germans.

Dr. HUEBSCHMANN was married in 1852 to Miss Creszentier C. HESS, daughter of John HESS, an old settler.  She was born in Baden, Germany, and came direct to Milwaukee in 1849.  There are four children still living, Adolph, Amelia, Frances and Annie; two have died.

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