[1][2] Freeman married to Catherine Grace Christie Higginson on July 13, 1866, in Vienna, Province of Canada, and they moved to San Francisco in 1873 and later to Los Angeles County.
[1][2] For many years, the family lived in a small house on his property that later became known as the Centinela Adobe and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Howland, his son-in-law, followed by another service at the Inglewood Episcopal Church and cremation at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Notable honorary pallbearers included newspaper editor and writer Charles F. Lummis and attorney Henry O'Melveny.
"[1] Freeman's first agricultural pursuit was the purchase of the 25,000-acre Centinela-Sausal Redondo Rancho from Robert Burnett, a Scotsman who had to return to his home country after the death of his elder brother to take up duties of his family estate there.
"[3][7] He was an investor in the Panorama Building, a commercial building and separate exhibition space for a panoramic painting, debuting in late 1887: a copy of the Panorama of the Siege of Paris by Henri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, depicting a battle of the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, the last one between the French resistance and the Prussian besiegers, which led to the fall of Paris in January 1871.
[1] Freeman was one of nine civic or social leaders who were sketched by Japanese-born artist Toshio Aoki when he visited Los Angeles from his San Francisco home in 1895.
So I make him big leader and give him the sword and the cap and the gown of one great Japanese man which has power over many and has large—you call it retinue, is it not?—of those which follow him in all things.