Sedgwick-Butler County KS Archives Biographies.....Freeman, Harvey J. 1870 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Harvey J. Freeman is a native of Butler county, Kansas, and was born in 1870
to Henry and Emma (Hart) Freeman, the former a native of England and the latter
of Canada, who settled in Butler county in 1869, where the father died in 1907.
Our subject is the seventh child of a family of twelve children. He acquired his
preliminary education in the district schools, then pursued a course of study at
Lewis Academy and later was graduated from the Southwestern Business College of
Wichita. After his graduation, in 1893, in connection with the institution last
named, and under Mr. E. H. Fritch, he organized a school at Guthrie, Okla.,
where he remained two years. Then associating himself with the Wichita
Commercial College, he established a school at Oklahoma City and continued with
it two years. Returning to Wichita in 1897, he held a position as instructor in
the institution there till the spring of 1905, when he and Mr. T. W. DeHaven
purchased the school. In the fall of that year, Mr. H. S. Miller also became
financially interested in the school. Under this proprietorship, the school was
carried on till 1909, when Mr. Miller sold his interest to his partners, who
have conducted the school since that time. The school, in its various
departments, occupies the entire third floor at Nos. 508-16 East Douglas street,
and has an enrollment of from 200 to 225, with a yearly attendance of 500
pupils. He was a member of the city council on the Republican ticket for a
period of two terms, and was president of that body for the term ending April 1,
1906. He has been a member of the board of the Kansas state poultry board for
the past five years, and on January 1 last, was elected president of the state
board, which position he still holds. Mr. Freeman is a prominent member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a past grand of the order. He also
belongs to the Woodmen of the World. In religious faith, he is affiliated with
the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1896 Mr. Freeman married Miss Evelyn Peoples,
a daughter of Dr. D. A. Peoples, of Guthrie, Okla., who removed thither from
Philadelphia in 1889. They have one child, Louise, who was born in 1897.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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