San Joaquin County
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CLARA M. FREEMAN, M. D.
CLARA M. FREEMAN, M. D., a
practicing physician of Stockton, was born in Sierra County, California, May 6,
1861, a daughter of William and Clarissa Jane (Richardson, by birth Hughell)
Freeman. The father, born in Green County, Tennessee, January 19, 1816, had
also been previously married, and had three sons and a daughter by the first
marriage, of whom two sons are living in 1890. The mother, born in Tremont,
Tazewell County, Illinois, August 10, 1829, was married while quite young, to
Charles Francis D. Richardson, by whom she had two children, both deceased. A
young widow of nineteen, she was married to Mr. Freeman, August 10, 1848. There
are two sons and three daughters of this marriage living: George Washington,
born in Iowa, December 22, 1849, came with his parents and a younger brother to
California in 1859, and is now a carpenter in Sacramento; Frank, born in Iowa,
October 17, 1858, was married to Miss Ada Parker, a native of Mason Valley, and
is now a rancher in Nevada. These have three children: Lucretia Jane, born May
19, 1886; Ada Belle and William James. The three daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
William Freeman, all born in California, are: Clara M., the subject of this
sketch; Ada, born December 10, 1864, now Mrs. J. J. Stubbs, of Grub Gulch,
Fresno County; Laura M., now Mrs. J. W. Isom, of Sacramento. Matilda Freeman, a
daughter by the first marriage, was married October 22, 1888, to J. B. Logan,
of Stockton. The mother of Mrs. Logan is deceased, but the father is living in
1890, at the age of fifty-three. William Freeman died at Cloverdale, Sonoma
County, December 16, 1877, but Mrs. Freeman is still living in 1890.
Grandparents George and Phoebe (Pugh) Hughell lived to an advanced age. The
former, born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1783, died in
Jefferson County, Iowa, December 7, 1873; and the latter, born in South
Carolina, November 30, 1786, died in Jefferson County, Iowa, September 30,
1872. They had been married in Ohio, March 4, 1805.
The subject of this sketch received her
early education in the public schools, and in 1881 entered the California
Eclectic Medical College in San Francisco, from which she was graduated after a
full course of three and one-half years, in April, 1885. Her practice in this
city is largely taken up with women and children, as she had expected and
desired. Dr. Freeman is a member of the California Eclectic Medical Society.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 615-616. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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