- ARTHUR H. FREEMAN. In such men as Arthur H. FREEMAN, a successful
farmer of
- Lagrange township, Walworth county, there is a peculiar satisfaction
in offering their life histories - justification for the compilation
of works of this character - not that their lives have been such
as to gain them particularly wide notoriety or the admiring plaudits
of men, but that they have been true to the trusts reposed in
them, have shown such attributes of character as entitle them
to the regard of all.
- Mr. FREEMAN was born in Rock county, Wisconsin, March 12,
1861. He is the son of
- Benjamin B. and Evaline O. (HURLBURT) FREEMAN, natives of
New York, the father born in 1816 and the mother in 1828. There
they were reared and married, and from there moved to Walworth
county, Wisconsin, in 1838, being among the pioneers here. The
father broke land where the town of Whitewater now stands. In
1840 he moved to Rock county, this state, and there settled on
a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, but later sold this and
in 1867 bought a farm in Richmond township, Walworth county,
consisting of one hundred and sixty acres and there the father
lived until his death in 1875, his widow surviving many years,
her death occurring in 1907. The family consisted of six children,
of whom three are living. Politically, Benjamin B. FREEMAN was
a Democrat and he held most of the township offices in Richmond
township. He and his wife were liberal in their religious views,
and they were highly esteemed by those who knew them.
- Arthur H. FREEMAN was reared on the farm and educated in
the public schools and he has
- made farming his life work; he is now the owner of one hundred
and fifty-nine acres of valuable land and has made a success
as a general farmer and stock raiser, in connection with which
he maintains a good dairy. He came to Lagrange township in 1900.
Politically, he is a Republican.
- Mr. FREEMAN was married in 1882 to Lillian WARNER, who was
born in Whitewater,
- December 1, 1858, the daughter of David and Martha Sophia
(THWING) WARNER, the father born in Genesee county, New York,
in 1824, and the mother's birth occurred in Pennsylvania in 1824.
Mr. WARNER came to Walworth county, Wisconsin, in 1842, and
was married here. His family consisted of five children. Politically,
he was a Republican He belonged to the Universalist church.
- One child was born to the subject and wife, Benjamin David,
whose birth occurred on August 5,
- 1884, and his death occurred at the age of ten months.
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- Taken from "The History of Walworth County, Wisconsin,
Vol. II" by Albert Clayton Beckwith, (c)1912, pp. 1022-1023.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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