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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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        E. T. FREEMAN, superintendent of Sanborn's Elevator, is a native of
     Ontario County, N.Y., and was born March 21, 1841.  His parents came
     to Michigan in 1843.  When the war broke out, Mr. FREEMAN enlisted, on
     the first call for troops, in the Topographical Engineers' Company.
     CAPT. HOWLAND, of the company, originated the system of signal lights
     and signal flags, from which sprung the system used by the army during
     the war.  The company was in Missouri until Fremont was superseded,
     when the signal corps was disbanded.  Mr. FREEMAN went into the
     Twentieth Michigan Infantry, and participated in the battles of the
     Potomac until the end of the winter of 1862-63, when he was trans-
     ferred to the Army of the Cumberland, under GEN. GRANT, and took part
     in the siege of VICKSBURG.  In the winter of 1863-64, he entered the
     Thirteenth New York Light Artillery, under a commission issued by GOV.
     SEYMOUR, and served until the end of the Atlanta Campaign.  Mr. FREE-
     MAN was the appointed to the Ordnance Department, under GEN. SLOCUM,
     in SHERMAN'S march to the sea.  He afterward returned to Tennessee
     with his command, and was on duty at Tullahoma until the close of the
     war.  He was wounded at Campbell Station, Tenn., and also before
     Atlanta.  After the war, Mr. FREEMAN returned to Battle Creek, and was
     engaged in the grain trade there for eight years.  He came to Port
     Huron in 1877, and since then has been engaged in the grain trade
     here.  Mr. FREEMAN married Miss JENNIE M. POWELL, of Victor, Ontario
     Co., N.Y., August 27, 1863.  They have three children - CHARLES
     TURNER, EUGENE LEIGH and ESTHER PEARL.

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