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Freeman, James – French, Benjamin Franklin

Freeman, James

clergyman, author, was born April 22, 1759, in Charlestown, Mass. He was the first clergyman in the United States to bear the name unitarian.

His Sermons and Charges were published in 1832. He died Nov. 14, 1835, in Newton, Mass.

Freeman, John D

congressman, was born in New Jersey. He removed to Mississippi; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

Freeman, Jonathan

congressman, was born in 1745. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1797 to 1801; and from 1789 to 1797 was a state councilor. He died in 1808.

Freeman, Nathaniel

soldier, physician, congressman, was born April, 1741, in Dennis, Mass. He performed various services in the legislature and as a brigadier-general of militia. He was also a judge of probate for forty-seven years, and a judge of the common pleas for thirty years. He was a member of congress from Massachusetts from 1795 to 1799. He died Sept. 20, 1827, in Sandwich, Mass.

Freeman, William Grigsby

soldier, was born in 1815 in Virginia. He was chief of staff to Gen. Scott, manding the army headquarters at New York. He was brevetted major in 1847, and lieutenant-colonel in 1848. He died Nov. 12, 1866, in Cornwall, Pa.

Freeman, William L

physician, surgeon, legislator, was born Sept. 3, 1856, in Page county, Iowa. He has attained eminence in his profession in the state of Washington at La Center; and in 1897- 98 served with distinction as a member of the state legislature.

Freer, Frederick W

artist, was born June 16, 1849, in Chicago, Ill. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich, and has become distinguished as a genre and portrait painter.

Freligh, Louis Henry

composer, was born July 1, 1838, in Mechanicsville, N. Y. He is the author of about fifty piano pieces and songs; and is a successful pianist of St. Louis, Mo.

Frelinghuysen, John

was born in 1727 in Three Mile Run, N. J. He undertook the education of young men for the ministry, and to his labors in this direction Queen's college, now Rutgers, is largely indebted for its establishment. He died in September, 1754, in Long Island.

Frelinghuysen, John

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 21, 1776, near Millstone, N. J. For many years he was a member of the state council, and for fifteen years was surrogate of his county. During the war of 1812 he was promoted brigadier-general. He died April 10, 1833, in Millstone, N. J.

French, Alice

author, was born March 19, 1850, in Andover, Mass. She is a writer of novels and short stories whose home has been in Davenport, Iowa, and also in Arkansas. She is the author of Knitters in the Sun; Otto the Knight, and other Trans-Mississippi Stories; Stories of a Western Town; An Adventure in Photography; and Expiation.

French, Benjamin Franklin

author, was born June 8, 1799, in Richmond, Va. He was a writer of New Orleans and subsequently of New York city; and the author of Biographia Americana; Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers; Historical Collections of Louisiana; History of the Iron Trade in the United States; and Historical Annals of North.

America. He died May 30, 1877, in New York city.