(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
John Esten Freeman, who was long numbered with the successful ranchers and cattlemen of Meadows, Adams county, Idaho, is now residing on the Boise bench in a splendid suburban home, standing upon a valuable tract of land of twenty acres, known as the old Wolfe place, at the corner of Alturas and Owyhee avenues. He has continuously been a resident of Idaho since 1886, or for more than a third of a century, and was but a lad of thirteen when he came to this state with his parents, John W. and Sally (Baker) Freeman, who were natives of Virginia. It was in that state that John Esten Freeman was born, his birth occurring near Roanoke, March 6, 1874. He was named for John Esten Cooke, the writer, a cousin of his mother. John W. Freeman became a telegraph operator in Virginia in early manhood and followed that occupation in the Old Dominion for many years. At length he came to the west, accompanied by his wife and eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom John Esten was the fifth in order of birth. The father took up a homestead near Meadows and he and his wife spent their remaining days in Adams county, his death occurring in 1910, while Mrs. Freeman survived until 1916, the remains of both being interred in the Meadows cemetery.
John Esten Freeman lived in the vicinity of Meadows from 1886 until the fall of 1918, when he removed to Boise and in December, 1919, took up his abode on his present ranch property on the bench. At Meadows, after attaining his majority, he followed ranching and cattle raising and on disposing of his interests there sold a thousand acres of land, of which eight hundred acres were in one tract. For the past eighteen years, in addition to his ranching activities, he has been a Star Route U. S. mail contractor, he and his brother-in-law, E. O. Brown, of Grangeville, Idaho, having a contract to transport the U. S. mails from New Meadows to Grangeville, a contract that was awarded them July 1, 1902, their route covering ninety miles.
Mr. Freeman was married at Meadows, August 20, 1902, to Miss Lizzie Clay, a native of Idaho, born in the mining town of Warren, June 12, 1880. Her father, Thomas Clay, a mining man, was one of the early pioneers of the state and married Katherine Klein, who came to Idaho in her girlhood days and was first married to William Osborn, who was killed in his cabin in a mining camp by the Nez Perce Indians, June 15, 1877, while other white settlers of the district met a similar fate, this massacre constituting the beginning of the Nez Perce Indian war of that year. Mrs. Osborn, together with many of the women and children of the locality, was not killed by the Indians, but they were made to suffer many hardships. Mrs. Osborn later married Thomas Clay and Mrs. Freeman is the eldest of their four children. Mr. Clay passed away in 1906 and his wife died a few years ago at the age of sixty-six years, both passing away near Meadows, where their graves were made. Mrs. Freeman has lived in Idaho throughout her entire life and has always remained in the vicinity of Meadows until the recent removal of the family to Boise in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have an only son, LeRoy Esten, who was born July 19, 1904, and is now a sophomore in the Boise high school.
Mr. Freeman is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in politics is a democrat. He has been a most earnest and active supporter of the party and for the past four years has been a member of the state democratic central committee from Adams county. He is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the further development and improvement of his twenty-acre ranch on the Boise bench, in the midst of which he has a large two-story cement block house containing six rooms and basement. There are other good improvements upon the place, which is well located, and one attractive feature of the ranch is a seven-acre orchard of apples and cherries which have come into bearing.
(information from Amanda Fox)
John Esten Freeman, who was long numbered with the successful ranchers and cattlemen of Meadows, Adams county, Idaho, is now residing on the Boise bench in a splendid suburban home, standing upon a valuable tract of land of twenty acres, known as the old Wolfe place, at the corner of Alturas and Owyhee avenues. He has continuously been a resident of Idaho since 1886, or for more than a third of a century, and was but a lad of thirteen when he came to this state with his parents, John W. and Sally (Baker) Freeman, who were natives of Virginia. It was in that state that John Esten Freeman was born, his birth occurring near Roanoke, March 6, 1874. He was named for John Esten Cooke, the writer, a cousin of his mother. John W. Freeman became a telegraph operator in Virginia in early manhood and followed that occupation in the Old Dominion for many years. At length he came to the west, accompanied by his wife and eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom John Esten was the fifth in order of birth. The father took up a homestead near Meadows and he and his wife spent their remaining days in Adams county, his death occurring in 1910, while Mrs. Freeman survived until 1916, the remains of both being interred in the Meadows cemetery.
John Esten Freeman lived in the vicinity of Meadows from 1886 until the fall of 1918, when he removed to Boise and in December, 1919, took up his abode on his present ranch property on the bench. At Meadows, after attaining his majority, he followed ranching and cattle raising and on disposing of his interests there sold a thousand acres of land, of which eight hundred acres were in one tract. For the past eighteen years, in addition to his ranching activities, he has been a Star Route U. S. mail contractor, he and his brother-in-law, E. O. Brown, of Grangeville, Idaho, having a contract to transport the U. S. mails from New Meadows to Grangeville, a contract that was awarded them July 1, 1902, their route covering ninety miles.
Mr. Freeman was married at Meadows, August 20, 1902, to Miss Lizzie Clay, a native of Idaho, born in the mining town of Warren, June 12, 1880. Her father, Thomas Clay, a mining man, was one of the early pioneers of the state and married Katherine Klein, who came to Idaho in her girlhood days and was first married to William Osborn, who was killed in his cabin in a mining camp by the Nez Perce Indians, June 15, 1877, while other white settlers of the district met a similar fate, this massacre constituting the beginning of the Nez Perce Indian war of that year. Mrs. Osborn, together with many of the women and children of the locality, was not killed by the Indians, but they were made to suffer many hardships. Mrs. Osborn later married Thomas Clay and Mrs. Freeman is the eldest of their four children. Mr. Clay passed away in 1906 and his wife died a few years ago at the age of sixty-six years, both passing away near Meadows, where their graves were made. Mrs. Freeman has lived in Idaho throughout her entire life and has always remained in the vicinity of Meadows until the recent removal of the family to Boise in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have an only son, LeRoy Esten, who was born July 19, 1904, and is now a sophomore in the Boise high school.
Mr. Freeman is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in politics is a democrat. He has been a most earnest and active supporter of the party and for the past four years has been a member of the state democratic central committee from Adams county. He is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the further development and improvement of his twenty-acre ranch on the Boise bench, in the midst of which he has a large two-story cement block house containing six rooms and basement. There are other good improvements upon the place, which is well located, and one attractive feature of the ranch is a seven-acre orchard of apples and cherries which have come into bearing.
(information from Amanda Fox)
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
John Esten Freeman, who was long numbered with the successful ranchers and cattlemen of Meadows, Adams county, Idaho, is now residing on the Boise bench in a splendid suburban home, standing upon a valuable tract of land of twenty acres, known as the old Wolfe place, at the corner of Alturas and Owyhee avenues. He has continuously been a resident of Idaho since 1886, or for more than a third of a century, and was but a lad of thirteen when he came to this state with his parents, John W. and Sally (Baker) Freeman, who were natives of Virginia. It was in that state that John Esten Freeman was born, his birth occurring near Roanoke, March 6, 1874. He was named for John Esten Cooke, the writer, a cousin of his mother. John W. Freeman became a telegraph operator in Virginia in early manhood and followed that occupation in the Old Dominion for many years. At length he came to the west, accompanied by his wife and eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom John Esten was the fifth in order of birth. The father took up a homestead near Meadows and he and his wife spent their remaining days in Adams county, his death occurring in 1910, while Mrs. Freeman survived until 1916, the remains of both being interred in the Meadows cemetery.
John Esten Freeman lived in the vicinity of Meadows from 1886 until the fall of 1918, when he removed to Boise and in December, 1919, took up his abode on his present ranch property on the bench. At Meadows, after attaining his majority, he followed ranching and cattle raising and on disposing of his interests there sold a thousand acres of land, of which eight hundred acres were in one tract. For the past eighteen years, in addition to his ranching activities, he has been a Star Route U. S. mail contractor, he and his brother-in-law, E. O. Brown, of Grangeville, Idaho, having a contract to transport the U. S. mails from New Meadows to Grangeville, a contract that was awarded them July 1, 1902, their route covering ninety miles.
Mr. Freeman was married at Meadows, August 20, 1902, to Miss Lizzie Clay, a native of Idaho, born in the mining town of Warren, June 12, 1880. Her father, Thomas Clay, a mining man, was one of the early pioneers of the state and married Katherine Klein, who came to Idaho in her girlhood days and was first married to William Osborn, who was killed in his cabin in a mining camp by the Nez Perce Indians, June 15, 1877, while other white settlers of the district met a similar fate, this massacre constituting the beginning of the Nez Perce Indian war of that year. Mrs. Osborn, together with many of the women and children of the locality, was not killed by the Indians, but they were made to suffer many hardships. Mrs. Osborn later married Thomas Clay and Mrs. Freeman is the eldest of their four children. Mr. Clay passed away in 1906 and his wife died a few years ago at the age of sixty-six years, both passing away near Meadows, where their graves were made. Mrs. Freeman has lived in Idaho throughout her entire life and has always remained in the vicinity of Meadows until the recent removal of the family to Boise in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have an only son, LeRoy Esten, who was born July 19, 1904, and is now a sophomore in the Boise high school.
Mr. Freeman is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in politics is a democrat. He has been a most earnest and active supporter of the party and for the past four years has been a member of the state democratic central committee from Adams county. He is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the further development and improvement of his twenty-acre ranch on the Boise bench, in the midst of which he has a large two-story cement block house containing six rooms and basement. There are other good improvements upon the place, which is well located, and one attractive feature of the ranch is a seven-acre orchard of apples and cherries which have come into bearing.
(information from Amanda Fox)
John Esten Freeman, who was long numbered with the successful ranchers and cattlemen of Meadows, Adams county, Idaho, is now residing on the Boise bench in a splendid suburban home, standing upon a valuable tract of land of twenty acres, known as the old Wolfe place, at the corner of Alturas and Owyhee avenues. He has continuously been a resident of Idaho since 1886, or for more than a third of a century, and was but a lad of thirteen when he came to this state with his parents, John W. and Sally (Baker) Freeman, who were natives of Virginia. It was in that state that John Esten Freeman was born, his birth occurring near Roanoke, March 6, 1874. He was named for John Esten Cooke, the writer, a cousin of his mother. John W. Freeman became a telegraph operator in Virginia in early manhood and followed that occupation in the Old Dominion for many years. At length he came to the west, accompanied by his wife and eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom John Esten was the fifth in order of birth. The father took up a homestead near Meadows and he and his wife spent their remaining days in Adams county, his death occurring in 1910, while Mrs. Freeman survived until 1916, the remains of both being interred in the Meadows cemetery.
John Esten Freeman lived in the vicinity of Meadows from 1886 until the fall of 1918, when he removed to Boise and in December, 1919, took up his abode on his present ranch property on the bench. At Meadows, after attaining his majority, he followed ranching and cattle raising and on disposing of his interests there sold a thousand acres of land, of which eight hundred acres were in one tract. For the past eighteen years, in addition to his ranching activities, he has been a Star Route U. S. mail contractor, he and his brother-in-law, E. O. Brown, of Grangeville, Idaho, having a contract to transport the U. S. mails from New Meadows to Grangeville, a contract that was awarded them July 1, 1902, their route covering ninety miles.
Mr. Freeman was married at Meadows, August 20, 1902, to Miss Lizzie Clay, a native of Idaho, born in the mining town of Warren, June 12, 1880. Her father, Thomas Clay, a mining man, was one of the early pioneers of the state and married Katherine Klein, who came to Idaho in her girlhood days and was first married to William Osborn, who was killed in his cabin in a mining camp by the Nez Perce Indians, June 15, 1877, while other white settlers of the district met a similar fate, this massacre constituting the beginning of the Nez Perce Indian war of that year. Mrs. Osborn, together with many of the women and children of the locality, was not killed by the Indians, but they were made to suffer many hardships. Mrs. Osborn later married Thomas Clay and Mrs. Freeman is the eldest of their four children. Mr. Clay passed away in 1906 and his wife died a few years ago at the age of sixty-six years, both passing away near Meadows, where their graves were made. Mrs. Freeman has lived in Idaho throughout her entire life and has always remained in the vicinity of Meadows until the recent removal of the family to Boise in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have an only son, LeRoy Esten, who was born July 19, 1904, and is now a sophomore in the Boise high school.
Mr. Freeman is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in politics is a democrat. He has been a most earnest and active supporter of the party and for the past four years has been a member of the state democratic central committee from Adams county. He is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the further development and improvement of his twenty-acre ranch on the Boise bench, in the midst of which he has a large two-story cement block house containing six rooms and basement. There are other good improvements upon the place, which is well located, and one attractive feature of the ranch is a seven-acre orchard of apples and cherries which have come into bearing.
(information from Amanda Fox)
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