Biographical Sketch of John Freeman, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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John Freeman is a successful merchant of Seymour, Mo., and was born on
the 4th of January, 1833, in Roane county, Tenn., both of his parents,
B. D. and Elizabeth (Fortson) Freeman, being born in the same state,
where they were also reared and married.  After residing in Anderson
county, Tenn., for some time they moved to Missouri in 1848, and locat-
ed in what is Webster county at the present time, where they made a 
farm, reared their family, and where the father died in 1883.  Since
fifteen years of age John Freeman has been a resident of Missouri, with
the exception of about fifteen years spent in gold mining on the Paci-
fic slope.  He made the journey overland to California in 1852, reach-
ing that state at the end of three months, and during his residence in
the West was engaged in the mercantile and livery business as well as
mining, and also fed stock a portion of the time.  In 1865 he returned
home via Nicaragua, New York City and St. Louis, and settled in Webster
county, where he engaged in farming and dealing in cattle, which occu-
pation he continued until 1882, when he entered into the mercantile
business at Waldo, where he sold goods for two years, and then moved to
Seymour and embarked in his present business, which is bringing him in
a nice annual income.  He carries a large and select stock of general
merchandise, and does an annual business of $20,000.  In December, 1865
he was married to a widow lady, Mrs. Elizabeth C. (Amick), a daughter
of Lorenzo and Cynthia Amick, and the widow of Abraham McMahan, by whom
she had one child, Elijah.  Mrs. Freeman was born in Webster county,
and she and Mr. Freeman are the parents of the following children:
Lorenzo D., Mary M., John T., Robert J. and Laura M.  Mr. Freeman is a
Master Mason in the Masonic fraternity, and he and wife are members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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