| This X51 is named after Joe Hill, who immigrated to the States from Sweden. He was born as Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in Gävle, Sweden, and also known as Joseph Hillström as pseudonym. He became a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. The itinerant worker, who moved around the west, hopping freight trains, going from job to job. By the end of 1913, he was working as a laborer at the Silver King Mine in Park City, Utah. Joe Hill was executed by firing squad on November 19, 1915, because he was charged as murder. A long time later it was found out, that another man had to be the murder and not Joe Hill. |