Hugh Henry Wimbish

Hugh Henry Wimbish

33.7483659,-84.3703978

1895

Atlanta, GA

1933

Training camp at Ft. Des Moines IA. Service: 368 Infantry to discharge. Stationed in Camp Meade, MD; Camp Merritt, NJ; AEF; Camp Upton, NY, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA. Meuse-Argonne; Served overseas as 2nd Lt. June 15, 1918 to February 11, 1919; Honorary discharge February 28, 1919. Hospitalized at Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee, AL for illness caused by exposure to poison gas during military service; apparently, this was cause of death.

He opened a dental practice in Cleveland, Ohio. Like his father, he was active in the Republican party. He served as the sergeant-at-arms at the 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

His father, Christopher C. Wimbish Sr., was a mail carrier and active in the Republican party. In 1898, he was appointed federal surveyor of customs for Atlanta by President William McKinley. His mother, Maggie Baker, was a teacher and principal of the E. P. Johnson night school.

He attended Atlanta public schools and Atlanta University. In 1917, Wimbish was one of 20 Atlanta University men commissioned as officers (including his brother, 1st Lt. Christopher C. Wimbish). Graduated from Meharry Dental College in Nashville, TN.