Sonoma-Sacramento-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Freeman, John M. 1823 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Freeman, John M. Born in Middlesex county, Connecticut, November 20, 1823. His
father died when he was six years of age. When nine years old he left his
parents, and went to live with William Leffinwell, after which he moved to
Columbia county, New York. He continued to live with his foster parents, moving
to Cattaraugus county, New York, till fifteen years old, and then went with them
to Pike county, Illinois; and then to Lee county, Iowa; remaining there to the
Spring of 1848, when they started for California, across the plains, but reached
Salt Lake so late in the Fall that they remained there during the Winter,
arriving in Sacramento, the following June, 1849. He remained in Sacramento
about three months engaged in contracting and building. He then tried mining on
the north fork of the American river for a few months, and then engaged in the
hotel and lumbering business in Greenwood, El Dorado county, till 1851; from
there he came to Sonoma county, and purchased a ranch of two hundred and
thirty-seven acres, about five miles north-west of Petaluma, on which he has
since resided. Mr. Freeman was married November 15, 1853, to Miss Eliza Harvy, a
native of Vermont. After thirteen years of wedded life she died, leaving five
children: Merrick L., Marrele E., Warren I., Laura L., Charles J. Mr. Freeman
married again December 1, 1870, Mrs. E. J. Chasdaller, a native of
Massachusetts. She had by her first husband four children: Charles H., William
E. (deceased), Ida E. V., Algia B.

Additional Comments:
Petaluma Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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