Claus
Lauritz Clausen was in Acrö, Denmark,
on 3rd November, 1820. After marrying Martha Rasmussen in 1842 the
emigrated to the United States.
In 1843 Clausen became pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at
Heart Prairie on the shore on Whitewater Lake in Wisconsin. In 1851
he began publishing a Lutheran Church newspaper. The following year
he became editor of Emigranten, the first Norwegian language
newspaper published in the United States.
In Emigranten campaigned against slavery
and on the outbreak of the Civil War
his close friend, Colonel Hans Heg, commander
of the Scandinavian Regiment, persuaded him to become its chaplain.
After the war he lived in Saint Ansgar, Mitchell County. Claus Lauritz
Clausen died in Austin, Minnesota, in 1892.
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