Biography of 	WINGRAVE, Thomas J., D. D. S., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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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.

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).