Re: Alden Freeman son of Joel Francis Freema
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In reply to:
Alden Freeman son of Joel Francis Freema
8/19/01
The following is from The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 12:523-4, and it appears in my book, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman, with related families, based partially on the work of Freeman Worth Gardner and Willis Freeman, 1995, Penobscot Press, Rockport, Maine, page 301.
ALDEN-8 FREEMAN (Joel Francis-7, Alexander-6, Joel-5, Israel-4, Henry-3-2, Ann-1), b. Cleveland, Ohio 25 May 1862.
" On the maternal side he is descended from John Alden of the Mayflower. He was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and the New York University. During his junior year he was made chief editor of the "University Quarterly" and was graduated B.S. in 1882, receiving the degree of M.S. in 1887. He then studied architecture with Lorenzo B. Wheeler of New York during 1882-3, and for three years was loan clerk in the Seaboard National Bank. In 1886 he became a salesman for the wholesale coal firm of Talbot, Phillips & Co., remaining with them until 1889, when he gave up active business. For ten years he conducted breeding stables in East Orange, where he reared and trained many fine carriage horses.In 1902 he turned his attention to political reform and was instrumental in the formation of the Citizens Union of East Orange, of which he was chosen secretary, and to which he has since devoted all his time.He is devoting himself to such reforms of the election laws as shall make government more truly representative of the individual voter, and to a political education of voters in the direction of securing equal opportunity for all men. He founded the New Jersey Society of Mayflower Descendants in 1900, of which he is historian. He is a trustee of the Revolutionary Memorial Society of New Jersey, a member of the council of the Society of Colonial Wars, the council of the Founders and Patriots of America, and the council of the Huguenot Society of America.He is a member of the Metropolitan, University, Players, National Arts, Reform, New York Yacht, and Church Clubs of New York city, and of the Atlantic Club of London, Eng.; of the National Hunt and Steeplechase Association, the Washington Association of New Jersey, the New Jersey Historical Society, the Descendants of Colonial Governors, the Sons of the Revolution, the St. Nicholas and Ohio Societies of New York, the New England Society of Orange, the Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities, the Veteran Corps of Artillery (Military Society of the War of 1812) and the Society of the Cincinnati."
Regards,
Patty Myers