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PILGRIMAGE ON LABOR DAY TO BE WATERFORDEVENTBANGOR RESIDENT RECALLS THE OLD DAYS IN LA CROSSE AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTMonument to be Erected Madison in Memory of Colonel Hans HcgWATERFORD, • Wis.—This lowu where Colonel Hans Hcg,Wisconsin'a heroes of lliewas once in business andinlittleone of Civil wa l* where agreat and distiiigub-Lied funeral service was hold for him fifr,v-nine yoars ago, will be visited on Labor Day, by hundreds of people, who will Como to participate in the pilgrimage t.to the Norwegian church yanl, a few I j m:U*£ !uv;iy. and whvrv Colonel Heg | is blined.\ The pilgrimage and celebration is • ; being held under the auspices of the . | Racine lodge of Sons of Norway, and f | is designed to aid tn the work of rais-r! ing funds for a statue to be erected ' in Madison to the memory of Colonel j ■ Ilcg. aud the Fifteenth Wisconsin \ regiment. of which he was nom-. j munder in the Civil war. This regi- uii'iit was mndf up nlmcsr wliniiy off yiiims: Norwegian jmmigivints and bore an lir.iisu.illy distinguished parrin ihe war and particularly at Ohk'ka-? ma ii go. where Colonel Hcg had met 1 his death. September 20, .1303. The z exercises Monday will be held on the \ I high and sightly top of Indiau Hill ; in {Lie Musk ego soil cm cut and in the church yard where Colonel Hog is burled and where was built The first Norwegian church in America.* Among the speakers will be Rev. Gustav Sterns of Milwaukee; A, .T. Myrland. secretary of tax commission, Madison, and R. M. Qunlly of Madison, high official tn the Pons ofedinprIslcalt;haisihflt;jfotidc tC 01OfpiOiStGFk!Mr. and Mr.s. S. C. Fauver_ Noims'ay orgr*nizat.ion, S p on k ers frotnSc»r0eii) * nc:i-eL-dir ir n icvIS:C•eLItVlt;10yRacine arc also expected to rake part.Largo delegations are expected from Racine, Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison and other places.In addition to visiting the grave of Crdoncl Ilcg, the visitors will also be!st:reGt shown many other places of unusual ILsiericnl interest to the Norwegian nationality, for in this Mnskoga settlement were begun many of the so-called “first things’bin the history of tin* uafionnIlly of ibis comihy. •In a paper on the history of the sen lenient written by A. O. Barron of Madison, occurs the following with reference to the Mstorlon 1 facts of tliis settlement and of Colonel I leg.“Here In Waukesha , and Racine conn?ies was founded, in 1S30-1S40. the celebrated Norwegian colony of Muskcgo. which at. one time numbered ewer souls and in which most of the “first things” of significant interest to the transplanted nationality originated or occurred.First Confirmation “Briefly, some of these first distinctions were: The first Norwegianconfirmation in America ; rim first call i to, ami the first regular ordinal ion j of, n Norwegian minister; the first •Norwegian church in America ; the | first nvo Norwegian.' AmoridP; the first steam sawmill'gives built by a Norwegian: the first eloo-iln 1 tions Uj slate offices of naturalized3 cuvrenoc Norwegians, the first American homeiHog ar.dandofS. C. Fauver, a former resident of La Crosse, now living at Bangor, celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday last, Sunday.He came to La Crosse Oct. 1, 1S59, and attended school one year under Miss Eliza Hixon, sister of J. E. Hix-on. The school he attended was the old fifth ward school. It was afterwards sold to the Presbyterians and used as a. church on Rose street, and is now doing duty on Windsor Avon.Most of the business houses the city were then located on Front between Main and State.In going from the north side to the south side in those days one had to take the railroad track if the water was high, of her wise one could cross over what was called the old plank mad.In the fall oT 1S60 when he was fifteen years old he returned to the state cf New York. The following year, April 2 4th, 1S6I, at the age of sixteen he enlisted in Co. E, 23rd N. Y. Volunteer Infantry and was mustered into the Ik S. service the 16th day of May, 1861. for two years. He was mustered out the 19th day of May, 1S63, *■ Then he returned to LaCrosse and re-enlisted in Co. L, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry; was out the 19th of July 1S65, and was married the 23rd of August, 18 65, to Miss Rebecca Aimentrout. They have spent 5 7 years of married life in La Crosse county. Of the union there are six children, 24 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.Mr. Fauver worked for W. R. Sill In a saw-mill for eighteen years and also served as president of the Washington Hose Co. No. 2 from 1S7 2 to 1ST4. When the Governor’s Guard was organized Mr. Fauver was mustered in as second lieutenant.Mrs. Fauver celebrated her TSth birthday the 39th of August, She camo to La Crosse in the summer of 1S63 from Naivor, I6wa, by steamboat to stay with her sister, Mrs. Rob. McGregor. The McGregors lived in the little house next to the filling station on Rose street.Both Mf*. andt Mrs. Fauver are hale and hearty and not. afraid to do their share of hard work on the little place just out of Bangor where they raise chickens, geese and ducks, grapes, plums, etc., and keep open house for their children and grand-•children, who take great pleasure in their visits home.siPm;RPTSe;Pdt]S'b*uS‘tlufnfat;i:hramracn. December 21, 1829. so; wan over ten yours old when lie came rcT M.iskego with his patents. In184 0. when twenty years old. he joined in ihe gold rush to California-acquirer! some gold, and in 1351 returned to M-.iskogn. married Gunhild Jucohsin Einouc and bought his father’s farm. A ^trmoin the Norwaynewspapers in D oniotcrv above, one of her childrenHoMrs. IIeg1* nnme ah Cornelia.13-54 there was a frightful re-of cholera in tho region and his wife worked nightiandnoted menfit day c;ivine for theitt -1.hMof many of the mostthe n; i: i on a 1 i t y in t h c pi on r p r p-’ r i o r I, J the dea d. Ko v a few including ihe distinguished ministers, pv.ns a farnier. huit in Clruise;-r Stub, Hat lest ad and Thai-! *SVn ter ford and conducted lierg; rlic* editors. Riivniert. Lngalandi saw mill. The same year no ^ and Skuigeland: the phyMcians, Sto-! clouted state prison eoinniis^ioner and phen C. I-Iimoe: the gallant marryr soldier. Hans C. Heg. and the linguist.El ins Molee.sick and burying years Hog was 1859 moved to a store and lieThe sen tie1850. tils wifeEven Hcg having dieddied in in 1S42.sonn after coming to the frontier. In l8fl ihe farm was bought by th* son. Tims C. Ileg, of whom a far the? word horn may not ho auiiss.“Harts Christian Heir was born iuwas thus first nf his nationality m ill is country tn bold a slate of fine. Two years -a tor he was re-dec led. but resigned and organized the Fifteenth Wisconsin regimenc of which lio was made colonel. To this regiment, rnmposed of a. thousand stalwart Norsemen—practically all iinnii-gmuts—the town of Norway, Racine county, alone sent sixly men. AtCluekamauga September 19, 1S63.tliia regiment received its baptism of fire. Here Colonel Ileg Ml. dying The next day. Funeral services were ^ hold for him at his home in Water- j ^ ford and an immense train followed; to his resting place in the MuskegoJ church yard, where his bones bavej now rested over a half century among! ikOKO of liis kindred. Mis loss was1 deep’y mourned. The Wisconsin State Journal said; ‘The state has sent no braver soldier and no- truer patriot to aid in tins? mighty struggle for national exist enee than Hi ms Christian Hog. The valorous blood of the old Vikings ran in his reins united with gentle virtues of a Christian and a .gentleman.* His modest monument: on the very hilltop of the cemetery is the second erected above him. Had Oh III1 not fallen he would have received the commission of a brigadier general.Mrs. Heg Living“Mrs. Heg is still living and makes - * her home with a daughter, wife of ifformer Congressman Charles NT Fowler of Elizabeth. New Jersey. Here she enjoys loving care and the luxuries nf n magnificent home which occupies an entire eitv block. Whatromantic elements have been blended in her long and varied life, and, for that matter, in ihe stories of so many other Mtiskego pioneers. From Norway to the swamps of Musk ego, from Musk ego to an elegant life in a grear lioing in the shadow* of the world’s* second city, with varying’ fortunesml vicissitudes mark ins: three so distinct stagesof life.“Next to the Even Heg farm and on the samp side of the road Is another group of Cnrm buildings. Oneof these is a combination log and frame stable, the log portion being: the old Mnskego log school house. • within whose humble and now dis- j honored walls Hans Heg. ReymcrE j Stangefand and so many other men-and women of note passed many a[ day a,? pupils or teachers, and whoso j story, eoulrl it he told, would no I doubt he of absorbing Interout. Again farther on we cum?, upon a substantial brick fnrnihonse. for a short time the home of Hans Hog. before he entered upon bis brief, but brilliant public ca- j reei\” st! *THE MYSTERY OF THE MOONFrench scientists expect to.be able to demonstrate, by means of photographs. wUcclior or nor there is life on the moon and oilier plants.Their hopes of doing this have been brightened by ihe invention of a teje-j kcopie eye camera by Charles LVren-' nos, author and scientist:,; M. Deromies. explaining 1 is inTon-ition. sairl: The principle nf the op*| pa nit us is that of projecting an ini'tense electric magnifying camera Ions j in such a manner that we can see objects millions of miles from rbe ex-pnsorl plate. The focusing is the most, difficult problem, but undoubtedly we shall soon be able ro furnish photographic proof whether or not there is planetary life.”.100,000 British Miners OutAccording tn n recent census. 100.-mine workers in Great Britain are unemployed.
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Sep 03, 1922
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