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HONORABLE EDWIN W. FREEMAN
FREEMAN, HONORABLE EDWIN W., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, California, was born in Galesville, Wisconsin, October 1, 1860. His father was George Y. Freeman and his mother Ann Hollinhead. He married twice. His first wife was Maude Fauver, of La Crosse, Wis., and his present wife was Carrie Stone, whom he married at Riverside, Cal., Aug 19, 1905.
Mr. Freeman received a common schooling which was followed by attendance at the university in Galesville, Wisconsin. After securing good collegiate education, he studied law with his father, Judge G. Y. Freeman, who had a large law practice in Northwestern Wisconsin.
In the spring of 1887, having been admitted to the bar, he came to Los Angeles, and for a time was a clerk in the law office of the late Judge W. P. Gardiner, but soon went to San Bernardino, California, as clerk in the office of Judge H. C. Rolfe, with whom he soon became associated as a partner. He stayed in San Bernardino until May, 1892, when he accepted the attorneyship for the South Riverside Land and Water Company, Citizens’ Bank and Temescal Water Company, and moved to South Riverside, then to San Bernardino County, but now the City of Corona, in Riverside County.
In 1893 the County of Riverside was formed from portions of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties, and Mr. Freeman was elected to represent it as its first Assemblyman in the Legislature of 1895.
In the spring of 1898 he accepted the presidency of the Citizens’ National Bank of Corona, and the business greatly increased under his management, but he found that the bank occupied so much time it interfered with his law practice, and he resigned for that reason.
In February, 1899, he moved to Los Angeles, where he is now enjoying a large civil law practice.
Transcribed 5-31-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 430, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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