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Family
 Elisabeth
lived with her mother at 269 W. 12th St. in NYC where her
mother  functioned
as the superintendent of the building, presumably in exchange
for rent. Jane Freeman became a noted painter specializing
in portraits, and lived in a studio above Carnegie Hall, curated
the gallery there, and also had a summer cottage in Rockport
MA. She received many awards and honors in NY and Europe;
her work was featured on the cover of Literary Digest and
in other publications.
John Francis
Freeman became a typesetter with many NY newspapers including
the Brooklyn Eagle, the Ithaca Journal, The Binghamton Press
and the Binghamton Sun. He was a leader in the printer’s
union. John had two children, Fred and Francis, with his
first wife, Mary  Ellen
Cavanaugh, and after she died he married Blanche Bishop of
Binghamton. The family lived in Northern New Jersey, Port
Washington, and Binghamton
alternately, and had five children, Jeannette (“Netty”,
later married to Walter T. Wittman of Paramus  NJ,
with two children Jane [later VandeBogart] and Carl Peter;
Ruth (later married to Robert C. Johnston,
with three children, William F., John H. and Margaret R.);
John (later married to Pearl Richardson, living in Chicago,
then marrying Kathleen ? with whom he had a son, also John);
Helen (later married to Charles Shipley,
settling in Tempe AZ with 3 children, Lynn, Jan, and Danny);
and Elizabeth who became head guidance counselor at Paramus
High School.
Mary
Hall Freeman supported Elisabeth’s suffrage work extensively
and kept her scrapbook for her. She died in the mid 1920’s.
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