Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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LAVERN L. FREEMAN
 
            A successful orchardist, whose accurate and extensive practical 
knowledge of local conditions has enabled him to operate in the real estate and 
insurance field to the decided advantage of his patrons, as well as of himself, 
is Lavern L. Freeman, of Marysville, whose busy office is at 327 D Street.  He 
was born on a farm in McHenry County, Ill., on March 6, 1870, the son of Henry 
and Sarah L. (Howard) Freeman, farmers and dairy folk; and under their favoring 
supervision, he began an excellent educational training, which included the best 
of courses in the grammar and high schools, and the University of Illinois.  
Then he remained at home until he began a thirty-year experience in teaching.
            In 1897 Mr. Freeman located in Sutter County, where he later taught 
school and was elected superintendent of county schools, serving for four years, 
after which he took charge of the educational department at the Ione Industrial 
School, and kept that for four years.  After that, he engaged in the 
real-estate, insurance, and brokerage business, always having the farm and its 
possible exploitation in mind; and he has been able, since 1917, to put several 
subdivisions on the market here, and to handle them very successfully, thus 
extending the fame of Sutter County lands.  He is himself very fond of farming, 
takes a deep interest in progressive agriculture, and has a seventy-acre show 
place of his own.  In politics he is a Republican.
            Mrs. Freeman, before her marriage, was Miss Mattie I. Morrison of 
Redlands, Cal., but a native of Wisconsin.  By a former marriage, Mr. Freeman 
has three children:  Myrta A., a teacher in the Stockton schools; Juanita N., 
the wife of Kenneth Gordon; and Lavern A., who has charge of his father�s 
agricultural and horticultural interests.  Mr. Freeman is a Master Mason, and 
also belongs to the Woodmen of the World.  Mrs. Freeman takes a deep interest in 
the Marysville Art Club, and is active in the work of the organization, 
promoting thereby the local interest of art and art-study.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p  342-347