About: Charles Henry Wilcken     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatPeopleOfTheUtahWar, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FCharles_Henry_Wilcken

Carl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Wilcken (October 5, 1831 – April 9, 1915) was a German-American artilleryman who was awarded the Iron Cross by the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV. On arrival in the United States in 1857, lacking English and possessing military skills and discipline, he signed on with what came to be known as Johnston's Army, a part of the United States Army sent to put down the so-called "Mormon Rebellion" (also known as the Utah War). He got permission to hunt for game to supplement the military rations. On one such trip he met some Mormons and decided to desert to join them. Later, to cover his defection, it was claimed that he had been captured by the Utah Territorial militia (the "Nauvoo Legion") at Fort Bridger. Wilcken later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of L

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Carl Heinrich Wilcken (de)
  • Charles Henry Wilcken (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Carl Heinrich Wilcken, in den USA Charles Henry Wilcken (* 5. Oktober 1831 in Eckhorst bei Lübeck; † 9. April 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah), war im Zivilberuf Müller und in der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Erhebung gegen Dänemark Unteroffizier der preußischen Armee. Er wurde nach seiner Auswanderung in die USA Gefreiter in der U.S. Army im Utah-Krieg, in dem er zur Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage (Mormonen) übertrat, wo er Leibwächter und Vertrauter von John Taylor und Wilford Woodruff wurde, zweier ihrer Präsidenten. (de)
  • Carl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Wilcken (October 5, 1831 – April 9, 1915) was a German-American artilleryman who was awarded the Iron Cross by the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV. On arrival in the United States in 1857, lacking English and possessing military skills and discipline, he signed on with what came to be known as Johnston's Army, a part of the United States Army sent to put down the so-called "Mormon Rebellion" (also known as the Utah War). He got permission to hunt for game to supplement the military rations. On one such trip he met some Mormons and decided to desert to join them. Later, to cover his defection, it was claimed that he had been captured by the Utah Territorial militia (the "Nauvoo Legion") at Fort Bridger. Wilcken later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of L (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_H._Wilcken.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Henry_Wilcken.jpg
death place
  • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States (en)
birth place
  • (en)
  • Eckhorst, Duchy of Holstein (en)
birth date
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 55 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software