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 FREEMAN

FREEMAN

Christ church, Raleigh, 1828-40; of St. Peters, Columbia, Tenn., 1840-41; of Trinity, Swedes- boro, N.J., 1841-42; of Immanuel, New Castle, Del., 1842-43, and in 1843 was elected missionary bishop of the missionary district of Arkansas and the southwest, and was consecrated Oct. 26, 1844, by Bishops Chase, Doane, Otey, Polk, Whitting- ham, Elliot, Lee, Johns and Henshaw, in St. Peter's church, Philadelphia, Pa. He was mar- ried to Ann Gholson of Virginia. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1839. He died in Little Rock. Ark. . April 29, 18.58.

FREEMAN, James, clergyman, was born in Charlestown, Mass., April 22, 1759; son of Capt. Constant and Lois (Cobb), grandson of Con- stant and Ann, great-grandson of Constant and Jane (Treat) great^ grandson of Deacon Samuel and Mercy (Southworth), and gi'eat' grandson of Samuel and Apphia Freeman, who came from England to Watertown, Mass., in 1630. James was graduated from Harvard in 1777, served in the Revolutionary war and was a prisoner at Quebec, 1780-82. In the latter year he became a ^_»- lay-reader in

sS-«iii*fflSBfe^>^ King's chapel,

Boston, Mass., fimnded in 1686 ind governed 1 v the Estab- lislied church of England. In 178.5 he became ' a Unitarian and f" 1 \' his advice ^ the wardens ml vestrymen hanged the I turgj- of the prayer book, to accord with his altered

views, which were generallj" accepted by his congregation. He applied for ordination in 1787, and on the refusal of the bishop to per- form the office, he was ordained by his own wardens and people and became sole pastor of King's chapel. The Rev. Samuel Carey was his colleague, 1809-1 •"), and the Rev. Francis W. P. Greenwood, 1824-26. In 1826 he resigned his pastorate and retired to private life. He was a member of the first school committee of Boston; an original member of the Mas.sachusetts histori- cal society and a member of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences. He received the honorary degree of A. 51 from Brown in 1790, and that of S.T.D. from Harvard in 1811. He pub- lished several sermons, and Sfrmons and Chnrijcs (1832). He died in Newton, Mass., Nov. 14. 183.'j.

FREEMAN, James Edward, painter, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., in 1808; son of Joshua Edwards and Eliza (Morgan), grandson of Elisha and Lydia (Reynolds), great-grandson of Captain Elisha and Mercy (Vincent), and great^ grandson of Samuel and Apphia Freeman, who came from England to Watertown, Mass., in 1630. James spent bis early life in Otsego, N.Y. He studied at the National academy of design, of which he became an associate in 1831, and a member in 1833. He opened a studio in the western part of New York, and in 1830 re- moved to Rome, Italy, where he passed the remainder of his life. In 1847 he was married to Horatia Augusta Latilla, born in London, Eng- land, Aug. 28, 1826, of English and Italian parentage, and the sculptor of "The Princess in the Tower," "The Triumpli of Bacchus" and " The Culprit Fay," besides a number of fonts, chimney-pieces and vases in both wood and mar- ble. His principal works were genre and por- trait paintings, among them being: The Bcf/fiars; The FIrnivr Girl; The Savoyard Boy in London; Youna Italy; The Bad Shoe; The Crnsodcrs' Bitiirn; Study nf an Angel; SUidtj of a Head of Judith; The Mother and Child (1868), and The I'uixhcse Peasants on the Lands of the. Sezchio (1883). He is the author of Oatlierinns from an .irtist's Portfolio. He died in London, Eng., N»v. 21, 1884.

FREEMAN, James Midwinter, clergyman and author, was born in New York city, Jan. 29, 1827; son of Moses and Lucretia (Midwinter) Freeman; grandson of Jedediah and Phebe (Clark) Freeman, and a descendant of the first settlers of Newark. N.J. He attended the public schools of New Y^ork and taught in them several years. He had pastoral charge in the New Jersey and Newark conferences of the M.E. cliurch, 18.50-72, and the latter year became assistant editor of Sunday school and tract pub- lications of the M.E. churcli. He received the honoi'ary degree of A.M. from Wesleyan univer- sity in 1866, and that of D.D. from Mount Union college. Alliance, Ohio, in 187.5. Besides a series of thirty-five books for children, known as liobin Panr/er's Library (1860-66), he published: Use of Plustration in Snnday-srhnol Teaching (1867); Hiindboolc of Bible?[ani)ers and Customs (1874); .4 Short Hisloru ofihe Eiighsli BMe (1879j. He dii-d in UIOO.

FREEMAN, John Charles, educator, was born in Lisle, N.Y.. Fel). 14, 1842- son of Charles Waldo and Charlotte (Brockway) Freeman; grandson of Stephen and Abigail (Thompson) Freeman: great-grandson of John and Huldah (Bicknell) Freeman; great- grandson of Stephen and Hannah (Jenkins) Freeman; and a descend- ant of Edmond and Elizabeth Freeman who came from England to Saugus, Mass., in 1635.