C. W. Freeman Biography This biography appears on pages 579-580 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm C. W. FREEMAN. C. W. Freeman, president of the Freeman-Bain Company, controlling a large produce business in Aberdeen, was born in Imlay City, Michigan, May 6, 1876. He is a son of L. and Sarah J. Freeman, the former of whom came to South Dakota in 1881, locating at Bath, where he was joined by his family five years later. He took up government land in that locality and engaged in farming there for many years, dying in 1904. He is survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter, namely: A. L., a resident of Oaks, North Dakota; C. W., our subject; Nora, of Aberdeen; and Arthur, of Oral, South Dakota. C. W. Freeman acquired a public-school education and after laying aside his textbooks turned his attention to farming, following that occupation until 1900. He then obtained a position in the employ of Jewett Brothers and held this for four years. In 1904 he joined his brother, A.Freeman, in the organization of the firm of Freeman Brothers, dealers in produce. This was succeeded by the Freeman Bain Company, Inc., in May, 1906, and the business has been conducted under that title since that time. C. W. Freeman is president of the concern and C. R. Evans is secretary and treasurer. Mr. Bain, who held stock at the time of the incorporation of the business, has now disposed of his interest. The Freeman-Bain Company does a wholesale produce business all over North and South Dakota and Montana and controls one of the largest concerns of the kind in this part of the country. In 1906 their present building was erected and the plant now includes a warehouse and an elevator with a capacity of thirty thousand bushels. The company employs from six to fifteen people and its business is constantly expanding. As its president Mr. Freeman occupies an important and responsible position and one which he is eminently well qualified to fill, for he is a business man of keen insight and discrimination and possessed of initiative, aggressiveness and executive ability. On the 7th of June, 1911, Mr. Freeman was united in marriage to Miss Ruby H. Stacey, of Aberdeen, a daughter of P. J. Stacey, one of the early settlers of the city. Mrs. Freeman was a teacher of music at the normal school previous to her marriage. Mr. Freeman gives his political allegiance to the republican party, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is connected fraternally with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is an excellent type of the modern business man - alert, energetic and determined, carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.