Dr. Silvanus D. Freeman and Lucretia A. Reisdorph

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Husband Dr. Silvanus D. Freeman ¹

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           Born: 29 Jan 1829 1
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           Died: 9 Aug 1894 1
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         Father: Edmund Freeman (1793-1853) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Chadwick (1799/1799-1882) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 24 Jan 1855 4

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Wife Lucretia A. Reisdorph ⁴

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Children

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1 F Kate Freeman ⁴

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         Spouse: Frank Taylor (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Silvanus D. Freeman

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He was a graduate of the medical department of the University of Buffalo, 1856, and began the practice of medicine in Smithport, Pennsylvania, continuing until the Civil War, when he went to the front as surgeon of the Pennsylvania "Bucktails," Forty-second Regiment, Colonel Kane. In October, 1862, surgeon to the United States Volunteers, continuing until the war closed; he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, and resumed practice until the Mexican trouble of 1876, when he was sent to Mexico as correspondent for the committee on foreign relations. On returning he again took up his profession, practicing until his death. He was a member of the county, state and national medical societies, prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, and a thirty-second degree Mason.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 54.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 523.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 846.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 55.