IN MEMORIAM^ JONATHAN FREEMAN. 403 



the State. He was secretary of the Moscow Creamery Ass'n. of 

 Freeborn Co., Minn., for four years. For several years he was 

 secretary of the Southern Minn. Hort. Society, and also one of 

 the vice-presidents of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society 

 for two years. He was always interested in the purification of 

 politics, in the education of the common people, in the elimina- 

 tion of the line betvveen a privileged moneyed class and the com- 

 mon every-day workman. 



During his life Mr. Freeman did a great amount of 

 hard work for the benefit of his fellowmen, work which has 

 brought him little recompense except in the love and respect 

 of those whom he tried so hard to benefit. It was his nature 

 to make hard work of everything which he undertook to do. No 

 task was complete until every stone was upturned, every possible 

 research made, every bit of available evidence sifted. 



He was an enthusiast, and yet a thoroughly practical man. 



Because of failing physical strength, the last few years have 

 been quietly spent at his farm home near Austin, Minn., until a 

 longing to "again see the mountains'' lured him to his untimely 

 death among strangers. The memory of his noble, unselfish 

 life will long be an inspiration to the community in which he resid- 

 ed. 



A personal acquaintance with the subject of this sketch ex- 

 tending over the period noted above, from the time Mr. Freeman 

 became secretary of the Southern Minnesota Society up to the 

 date of his death, gives me opportunity to confirm very much that 

 is said about him here, and especially as to his zeal, integrity and 

 ability to carry out successfully what he undertook. Mr. Free- 

 man was a very efficient secretary for the Southern Minnesota 

 Society and did a great deal to place that young organization on a 

 substantial footing. In the course of the years that he occupied 

 that position considerable correspondence passed between us. 

 Later, he was elected and then re-elected to the office of vice-presi- 

 dent of this society for his congressional district, and his reports 

 were really a new departure in their character, as he took great 

 pains to secure information from many members in his district, 

 codifying the facts that he secured into a very interesting and 

 practical report. His method of sending out a series of ques- 

 tions to be answered for the purpose of securing the information 

 he desired to obtain is now being followed by all the vice-presi- 

 dents of the society. 



