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Hans Christian Heg (21 December 1829 – 20 September 1863) was a Norwegian-American politician and soldier in the American Civil War from Wisconsin. 〔( ''Borgerkrigen i De Forente Stater i Nord-Amerika'' (by Joh A. Enander. La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1881. The Promise of America) )〕 ==Background== Heg was born at Haugestad in the community of Lierbyen in Lier, Buskerud, Norway on December 21, 1829. He was the eldest of the four children of an innkeeper. His father, Even Hansen Heg (1790–1850), moved his family to America in 1840, settling in the Muskego Settlement in Wisconsin. Hans Heg was eleven years old when his family arrived in Muskego. He soon earned a reputation for himself as being a gifted boy.〔(''Even Hansen Heg'' (Dictionary of Wisconsin History) )〕 At twenty years old, lured by the discovery of gold in the Sacramento Valley, he and three friends joined the army of "Forty-Niners". He spent the next two years prospecting for gold in California. Upon the death of his father, he returned to the Muskego area in 1851. He married Gunhild Einong, daughter of a Norwegian immigrant. Heg became a rising young politician who found slavery abhorrent. He naturally became an ardent member of the Free Soil Party.〔Blegen, Theodrore C., editor. ''Civil War Letters of Colonel H. C. Heg''〕 Heg was a major in the 4th Wisconsin Militia and served as Wisconsin State Prison Commissioner. He was the first Norwegian-born candidate elected statewide in Wisconsin. He soon joined the recently formed Republican Party. He was an outspoken anti-slavery activist and a leader of Wisconsin's Wide Awakes, an anti-slave catcher militia.〔''Birth Records for the Parish of Lier'' (Den Norske kirke. Ministerialbok Nummer 10. Fylke: Buskerud. Prestegjeld: Lier/Frogner) ()〕〔Mike Miller, "(A Veteran For All Time. Abolitionist Col. Heg Died At Chickamauga )," ''Capital Times'', November 11, 1997.〕 During this time, he sheltered Sherman Booth, who was made a federal fugitive after inciting a mob to rescue an escaped slave. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Christian Heg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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