Peg Johnston, born Margaret Ruth, in 1948 is the daughter of Robert Clark Johnston and Ruth Freeman Johnston. She has been active in many causes, notably abortion care and anti-violence work as well as many community projects in her hometown of Binghamton NY. Peg Johnston edited and published the Pregnancy Options Workbook in 1998 to…
Notes prepared by Jeanette Freeman Wittman Jane Freeman, the portrait painter and artist, was born in Chesterfield England in 1871 and was brought by her mother (Mary Hall Freeman) to the United States with her two younger siblings, John Francis Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman in the mid 1870’s. Jane died on September 23, 1963…
From “An Immigrant Goes to War: The Civil War Correspondence of Herman and Adeline Weiss” ed. Harlan B. Phillips, in History 4: A Meridien Periodical (New York: Word Publishing, 1961)
Jennie is the mother of Blanche Bishop Freeman, who was mother of Jeanette, Ruth, John, Elizabeth, and Helen Freeman. She was born Jeanette Fraser June 22, 1855 in Oxford in Chenango County New York. Her granddaughter Nettie said that “she scratched her name ‘Jeanette’ out of the family Bible, to the horror of everyone, and…
Walter T. Wittman was the son of Carl and Mary (Thalmeyer) Wittman, and father of Jane Vandebogart and Carl Wittman. Walter, or “Walt” as he was known in the family, was good natured, humorous, and well liked. He was a lawyer specializing in school and municipal law, and secretly held firm beliefs in Communism, which…
The following is a cookbook from Jane’s unwieldy box of recipes on scraps of paper. A record of her activism, her childhood, her relationship with her mother, Jeanette (“Netty”) Freeman and grandmother, “Mama” (Mary) Wittman, the title refers to the many potlucks she cooked for.
Jane is the daughter of Jeanette Freeman and Walter T. Wittman. She married Aaron Vandebogart in 1967 and separated in 1977 with an official divorce in 1989. She lived in Woodstock NY her whole adult life and was active in community causes and government as a member of the Town Council and in the Planning…
John F. Freeman lived to be 86 and for 68 years of his life he was in the Typographical Union. He was very involved in the Union and helped several people to get into the Union, notably Marian Cohen’s husband. She was a devoted friend of the family until her death. This pdf has several…
John Francis Freeman, son of Mary Hall Freeman, father of Fred, Frances, Jeanette, Ruth, John, Elizabeth, and Helen. “Pop” Freeman outlived two wives and was very involved in raising his children. These collected and edited letters show his warmth and good humor toward his children and grandchildren. “There is no news. It isn’t out yet.…
Herman Weiss Johnston, son of William F. and Julia Johnston, father of Robert Clark, William Fulton, and Margery Clark Johnston. Contents include: History of the NE Bronx (Eastchester), Herman and Adeline Weiss who corresponded during the Civil War, William F. and Julia Johnston, civic leaders, treatment of TB, the drive to extend the subway to…
