Arkitekt Carl Michael Eger f 7.12.1843 i Kristiania

[Jan Åge Habberstad]

Arkitekt Carl Michael Eger (7.12.1843 i Kristiania - 16.5.1916 i Brooklyn, New York) var sønn av zahlcasserer Lorentz Eger (12.10.1810 i ? – 2.12.1881) og Caroline Ovidia Bergh (6.8.1814 i - 21.7.1891). Er det Kristianiafolk dette?

Carl Michael Eger ble utdannet i Dusseldorf i Tyskland, og gikk i lære hos arkitekt Jacob Wilhelm Nordan (1824-1892) i Christiania. Han emigrerte 1869 til USA.

Gift 14.12.1870 med Mathilde Anderssen (22.2.1849 i ? - 1.5.1913 i New York?) datter av?.

Adoptivdatter (søsterdatter av Mathilde): Josefine Alette Olsson (6.3.1878-), hun gift med lege Christian Christop Andreas Lange (25.11.1874-).

I 1876 grunnla Poulsen and Eger the Hecla Iron Works i 61 Wythe Avenue Williamsburg, Brooklyn, et firma som snart ble kjent for sitt særpreg med ornamenter av jern og bronsjeprodukter.

Den 12 etasjers høye doble spiraltrappen i Statue of Liberty i New York var designet av Eger.

Han designet statuen «Løvinne med unger» av H. Stuetzer, malt sink, satt opp nord for Tårnhuset 1891 på St.Hanshaugen i Oslo.

Kenneth Bjork;

Perhaps the first Norwegian Architect to migrate was Carl Michael Eger, who, says one source, was the son of a royal chamberlain. Eger received his technical education at Dusseldorf in Germany, and obtained his early experience under the then famous Norwegian architect, Nordan, in Christiania. In 1869 he was awarded a government stipend for study abroad.

Coming to America, he apparently found life in the New World congenial, for he remained. His first position in this country was with the Architectural Iron Works of New York, and there he made the acquiantance of Niels Poulsen, a farsighted Dane whose memory is perpetuaded in the present American- Scandinavian Foundation. In 1876 Poulsen and Eger founded the Hecla Iron Works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a firm that soon became known for its excellent ornamental iron and bronze products.

Eger is credited with the design of the bronze group, Lioness and Her Young, which was sent to Christiania and placed atop St. Hans Hill near the city. Throughout Eger`s career he displayed energy, shrewd business sense, and a generous nature. When he died in 1916 he left considerable sums of money for an old peoples home in Staten Island - The Eger Health Care and Rehabilitative Center, and for Our Saviour`s Church, the Norwegian Turn Society, and the Norwegian Society, all of Brooklyn.

Biografi: https://www.strindahistorielag.no/wiki/ ... chael_Eger

[Marit Lorvik Sørli]

Familien Eger i 1865 :

http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/ft ... 22&lnr=000

Lorentz Egers dødsfall , 2/12-1881 - Gamle Aker
nr 50
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20060928050256

Caroline Egers dødsfall
nr 57
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20060928060281

Lorentz , dåp 14.november 1810 , Domkirken.
venstre side :
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20061005020679

Ole Olsen Eger og Margaretha Elisabeth Meyer.

Caroline Ovidia
dåp nederst på høyre side ; 4.oktober 1814 , Gran.

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20070603840644

foreldre Carl von Bergh og Catrine Olavsen.

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Lorentz og Caroline Ovidia sitt giftemål her nr 73.
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20070206610191

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Mathilda er født i Sverige og dør i New York

Name: Matilda Eger
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 01 May 1913
Event Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 64
Marital Status: Unknown
Birth Year (Estimated): 1849
Father's Name: Andrew Anderson
Mother's Name: Unknown
Spouse's Name: C. M. Eger
Spouse's Gender: Male
Note: Spouse from image 2217

Reference ID: cn 9211
GS Film Number: 1324264

Citing this Record
"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WNC-97Y : 10 February 2018), C. M. Eger in entry for Matilda Eger, 01 May 1913; citing Death, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,324,264.

I følge testamentet har hun flere søsken i USA, og noen slektninger ved Rögle tegelbruk, Hjärnarp og Mjöhult ved Ängelholm i Skåne i Sverige. Men ingen Josefine Alette er nevnt blant arvingene

Her er forøvrig dødsdagen nevnt som 30.4.1913

Name: Matilda Eger
Event Place: Kings County, New York
Event Date: 1913
Schedule Type: Administration of the Goods, Chattels and Credits
Court: Surrogate's Court
Event Type: Administration (without a valid will)
Number of Images: 4
First Image Number: 262
Last Image Number: 265

Digital Folder Number: 004267343

Citing this Record
"New York, Kings County Estate Files, 1866-1923," database with images, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7GN-L2P : 10 March 2018), Matilda Eger, 1913; Surrogate Court, Brooklyn; FHL microfilm 004267343.

[Jan Åge Habberstad]

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