William Fairfax Freeman

Brief Life History of William Fairfax

When William Fairfax Freeman was born on 13 April 1905, in Mont Alto, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George B. McClellan Freeman, was 40 and his mother, Elmyra " Mira" Woolridge, was 43. He married Emma C. Heintzelman about 1928, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Quincy Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Quincy, Quincy Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 19 September 1961, in Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Quincy, Quincy Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Fairfax Freeman
1905–1961
Emma C. Heintzelman
1904–1981
Marriage: about 1928

Sources (8)

  • William F Freeman, "United States 1950 Census"
  • William Fairfax Freeman, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
  • W Fax Freeman, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1906 · Licencing Butchers

A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .

Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).

Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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