| Charles Freleigh | |
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Full name |
Charles W. Freleigh |
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Alternative names |
Charles W. Freligh, C.W. Freleigh, C.W. Freely |
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Presence at Shimer |
–1882 |
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Presence on Earth |
–1919 |
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Role(s) |
Seminary period alum |
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Location(s) |
Windham, OH |
Charles Freleigh was a student at Shimer College in the Seminary period, graduating in 1882. He attended under the manual labor program, graduating from the Normal Department. He is the only male student listed among graduates in the Seminary period.
His age is listed as 27 in the 1880 US census of the school.
Annual Calendars show him as living in Windham, Ohio in 1900,[1], which was also the hometown listed in the 1882 Oread. He is listed in Cuyahoga Falls in 1911.[2] However, a Charles W. Freleigh is listed in city directories of Akron, Ohio, as a teacher residing on Collinwood Ave., from 1909 to 1916.
He also taught for many years in Washington state.
Mentioned[]
- in "Personals", Oread, August 1883, p. 8:
- Mr. Charles Freleigh is reading medicine.
- in "Scattered Family", Frances Shimer Record 12:1, April 1920:
- Miss Ida M. Freligh of Akron, Ohio, writes of the death of her brother, Charles W. Freligh, in that city on January 31, 1919. Mr. Freligh was a student in the seminary days, when the school was coeducational, graduating in the class of '82. He devoted many years of his life to teaching in the state of Washington, where he also took up a government land claim. Mr. Freligh was a man of high ideals, of refined taste for the best in literature, and of noble Christian life.
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