Born: Greenup, Ill., 1859.
Died:
Grew up on the farm. Attended country school, County Normal and State School at Normal, Ill. He was a teacher for eleven years in the country and town schools. When twelve years of age he made a violin of a cigar-box and learned to play about eighty pieces by ear. Later he studied music. Before his conversion, he made music for dances; since then he has made music more earnestly for the Lord. The first three years of his preaching were connected with his work as a schoolmaster. During that period he received less than three dollars for his ministerial service. His work in Illinois was mostly in southeastern counties. Mr. Freeman has been an earnest and efficient evangelist, having led in eighty revivals. He baptized his own mother on the seventieth anniversary of her birth. His preaching always rings true to the word of God, of course.