Bio of FREEMAN, George T. (b.1874), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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GEORGE T. FREEMAN - Vol II, pg 682-685
George T. Freeman, one of the capitalists of Minneapolis who in the manage­ment
of important business interests has displayed ready mastery of the intricate and
difficult questions which arise in the management of important concerns, is a
stockholder and secretary of the Gamble-Robinson Company, Incorporated. His
efforts, however, are by no means confined to one undertaking but have proven a
helpful factor in the successful management of other interests. Mr. Freeman was
born in Ripon, Wisconsin, on the 13th of October, 1874, a son of Thomas P. and
Annie M. (Bonnell) Freeman. The Freemans are an old and honored Wisconsin
family, the grandfather having been at one time mayor of Milwaukee. They
originally resided in Connecticut. The Bonnells were also early settlers of
Wisconsin and Mrs. Freeman was the first white girl born in Fond du Lac, and the
second white child born in that community.
The public schools of Ripon afforded George T. Freeman his early education and
subsequently he attended school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After graduating
from high school he enrolled in the Baptist College and afterward took a course
in a commercial college. After putting his textbooks aside he accepted a
position as clerk in a shoe store and three years later went on the road,
selling groceries. In 1899 he entered the wholesale coffee business in
Minneapolis, in which he remained two years, and subsequently became associated
with the Gamble-Robinson Company, an association he has since maintained. In
1901 the concern was incorporated and George T. Freeman became a stockholder. In
1918 he was made secretary of the corporation and is discharging the many duties
devolving upon him in this im­portant capacity to the complete satisfaction of
all concerned. He has been a dominant factor in the continued success of the
corporation, which, in 1921, was operating in ten states. Outside of the
Minneapolis company the corporation op­erates forty branch offices. Aside from
his connection with the Gamble-Robinson Company, Incorporated, Mr. Freeman is a
stockholder in various other important concerns and is conceded to be one of the
representative business men of the North­west.
On the 26th of November, 1901, occurred the marriage of George T. Freeman to
Miss Mary Hoffman of Minneapolis. She is a woman of much culture and refine­ment
and is prominent in the club and social circles of her native city.
In his political views George T. Freeman is a republican. He is essentially
public-spirited and is active in the furtherance of every movement for the
development and improvement of the city, county and state. He is chairman of the
Minnesota stores bureau committee of the Civic & Commerce Association, jobbers
section, and for years he has been prominent in the Associated Charities. He has
charge of the district on the Glacier Trail and has assisted in raising funds
for the trail. During the World war he was a member of the American Defense
Organization and served either as captain or general of the Seventeenth District
in all the Liberty Loan drives, during which he sold more than half a million
dollars worth in this dis­trict. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club and is
president of the Northwestern Fruit Jobbers Association and past president of
the Minneapolis Association of Credit Men. Socially he is identified with the
Minneapolis Athletic, Minneapolis Auto, and Minneapolis Golf clubs and the Town
& Country Club of St. Paul. Mr. Freeman has attained popularity and enjoys the
confidence and respect of all of his fellow-men.