Hecker

Fried rich Karl Franz, a German-American soldier; born in Wichtersheim, Baden, Sept. 28, 1811. After studying law in Heidelberg, he abandoned his profe ion for political life. On the outbreak of the revolution in Germany in 1848 he endeavored to convert the preliminary convention into a permanent republican a embly. But, frustrated in this attempt, he put himself at the head of a band of revolutionists, and invaded Baden from the §8.; he was, however, defeated at_Kandern and fled to Switzerland. In the following year he removed to the United States, and became a farmer near Belleville, Ill. On the outbreak of the Civil War he raised a regiment of Germans, and aftge a time commanded a brigade, e died at St. Louis, March 24, 1881., Hecker, Isaac Thomas, an Amer« ican Roman Catholic clergyman; born in New York.