BIO: Horace N. FREEMAN, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 154-155.
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  REV. HORACE N. FREEMAN, McAlevys Fort, Huntingdon county, Pa., was 
born in Essex county, N. J., April 14, 1864. His parents are George C. 
and Sarah F. (Van Duyne) Freeman. George C. Freeman was born August 15, 
1825, in Essex county, N. J., son of Gershom W. and Eliza N. 
(Gildersleeve) Freeman. The Freeman family is of English origin. 
Gershom W. Freeman was a farmer. His son George C. was educated partly 
in the common schools and partly at select schools. He also became a 
farmer, subsequently engaging in market gardening and dairy farming. 
His home is in Essex county, N. J. He was married in Morris county, 
N.J., November 30, 1861, to Sarah F. Van Duyne, daughter of Martin R. 
and Julia C. (Crane) Van Duyne; her father's family emigrated from 
Holland, and her mother's from England. Their children are Orville, 
merchant, of Essex county, N.J.; Horace N.; Cyrus G., market gardener, 
of New Jersey; William, a merchant, deceased; Herman M., civil 
engineer, New Jersey; all graduates of the high school at Orange, N.J. 
Mr. Freeman has retired from active business. He is a Republican, and a 
member of the Christian Reformed church.
  It was in 1886 that Horace N. Freeman graduated from the high school 
mentioned above, at Orange. He took his theological course at Xenia, 
O., graduating in 1889, and adding courses of one year each at 
Princeton Seminary, Princeton, N.J., and at Westminster College, New 
Wilmington, Pa. in July, 1891, Rev. Mr. Freeman came to McAlevys Fort, 
was ordained in the following month, and installed pastor of the United 
Presbyterian church of Stone Valley, succeeding Rev. J. M. Adair. This 
happy relation still exists. During Mr. Freeman's ministry some repairs 
have been made in the church building. This church has a long and very 
interesting history; its origin is found, nearly a century ago, in an 
Associate Presbyterian congregation, organized in Huntingdon borough in 
1801. it has ever since continued, under the various phases of its 
existence, to maintain the uncompromising orthodoxy and sterling 
virtues of the Scottish ancestry of its membership; it has been and 
still is a power for great good in the community. As befits the decided 
utterance of his church on the temperance question, Rev. Mr. Freeman is 
a Prohibitionist.
  Rev. Horace N. Freeman was married in 1893, at Webster's Mills, 
Fulton county, Pa., to Sallie, daughter of Charles and Jane (Brady) 
Taggart, a native of that place. Mrs. Freeman's parents are deceased; 
her father was a farmer, and both parents were of Scotch-Irish descent.