Wingrave, Thomas Joseph, D. D. S.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Wingrave, Thomas Joseph, D. D. S. of New Orleans, was born in that city, July 8, 1879, the son of Thomas R. and Virginia (Preble) Wingrave. The Wingrave family, of English nationality, grave served 4 years in the United States navy, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment was a stationary and marine engineer. Capt. Preble, his father-in-law, was a soldier during the Civil war. Thomas J. Wingrave is the eldest of 6 children, the others being: Henrietta, Celia, wife of F. Sissung, who is connected with the Sendker Printing Co., of New Orleans; Katherin, Mary and Lillian. After having been educated in the public schools, and having gone through the usual studies in the New Orleans college of dentistry, Dr. Wingrave graduated from the latter institution in 1907. He then began the practice of his profession with Dr. Harry Crane, and 2 years afterward continued on his own account. He is demonstrator of prosthetic dentistry at Tulane university, ex-president and member of the Louisiana State Dental Alumni, member of the Louisiana State Dental society, president of the Odontological society of New Orleans, secretary and treasurer of the alumni society of the Dental Department of Tulane, which formerly was New Orleans college of dentistry. Dr. Wingrave married Miss Bertha Schmidt, daughter of Joseph and Bertha (Metz) Schmidt. They have 2 daughters, Ada Agnes Anna and Cecilia (deceased).

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 465-466. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.