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FREEMAN, INGRAHAM BILL (1835-1911)

FREEMAN, INGRAHAM BILL, doctor; b. Liverpool, N.S., 15 Aug 1835, s/o Whitman Freeman and Ann Kempton; m. 1st, 1859, Mary Eliza Hull, of Cornwallis, N.S., and 2nd, 1882, Annie (Murray) Mappin, d/o James Murray and Sarah Currie, of Newcastle, and wid/o Ernest Edward Mappin; d. Bridgetown, N.S., Feb 1911.

Ingraham B. Freeman studied at Acadia before being trained in medicine at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (MD 1856). Prior to 1870, when he moved to the Miramichi from Richibucto, he practiced medicine at no fewer than five locations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Besides conducting a general medical practice in Newcastle he acted as physician to the Intercolonial Railway and part of the Micmac population of the county. He was the surgeon of the Newcastle Field Battery and a coroner after 1877. The Union Advocate stated that he was also the personal physician of other doctors on the Miramichi.

Freeman's first wife died only three years after their marriage, and he was a widower for the next twenty years. In 1881, he was one of a number of unattached professionals living at Newcastle's Waverley Hotel. In January of that year, Ernest E. Mappin, age thirty, died at the hotel. "Late of the firm of Mappin & Webb, of London," he had come to Millerton in 1878 in connection with the Miller Tanning Extract Co. That fall, he and his wife hired a contractor to build them a "mansion," or "castle in miniature" at Millerton, but before it was finished, his wife died, at age twenty-four. In July 1880, Mappin was remarried, to Annie Murray of Newcastle, but within another six months he himself was dead. Freeman may have been his physician during his last days at the Waverley. In any event, a year and a half later, at age forty-seven, he married his widow, Annie (Murray) Mappin, age twenty-four.

In 1888, the Freemans bought a farm and apple orchard property at Bridgetown, N.S., where he planned to continue to practice medicine. He died at Bridgetown in 1911 and his widow in 1920, leaving a large estate. There were no children from either marriage.

Sources

[b] Freeman Genealogy [m] Presb. Witness 5 Feb 1859; World 15 Jul 1882 [d] Advocate 28 Feb 1911 / Advocate 9 May 1877, 28 May 1879 (re. Mappin), 5 Jan 1881 (re. Mappin), 14 May 1884, 1 Aug 1888, 21 Sep 1920; Courier 22 Jul 1880 (re. Mappin); Leader 24 Mar 1911; NB Medical Registers; Stewart; Telegraph 14 Dec 1870; Times 24 Mar 1879 (re. Mappin)


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