CURRENT, Freeman

CURRENT, CLOTHIER, SANDERSON, MARTIN

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Date: 1/19/2003 at 20:21:58

FREEMAN CURRENT. 

Freeman Current, who is recognized as one of the leading and prosperous farmers of Sharon township, has spent his entire life in that locality, and is a worth representative of an old and honored family of Clinton county. He was born in Sharon township, November 9, 1858, and is a son of Elisha and Eliza (Clothier) Current, the former a native of Welland county, Canada, the latter of England. The father followed the trade of a carpenter and bridge builder in his native country until 1857, when he came to Iowa, and located on section 17, Sharon township, this county, where he engaged in farming throughout the remainder of his life. He died on the 19th of June, 1898, but his wife is still living and now resides in Lost Nation. The children born to them as follows: LaFayette, a farmer of Morris county, Kansas; Freeman, our subject; Ella, wife of Frank Sanderson, a farmer of Sharon township, this county; Alpha, who died at the age of four years; Sherman, a photographer of Maquoketa, Iowa; and Ida, who died at the age of twelve years.

Freeman Current is indebted to the common schools of his native township for his educational advantages. He has always lived on the old homestead farm, and has devoted his time and energies to agricultural pursuits, in which he has met with excellent success. In connection with general farming he engages in stock raising quite extensively, making a specialty of red polled cattle, of which he has a fine herd upon his place. He now owns three hundred and twenty-five acres of fine farming land on sections 8 and 17, Sharon township.

In 1884, Mr. Current was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Martin, a native of Sharon township, and to them have been born seven children: Ethel, Leigh, Earl, Harold, Lawrence, Walter and Eleanor. Politically Mr. Current is identified with the Republican party, and socially is a member of the Mystic Tye Lodge, No. 402, K. P., of Baldwin, Iowa; and the Fraternal Brotherhood of the World, at Lost Nation. He has held several minor offices in his township, and has always taken a deep and commendable interest in public affairs, giving his support to all worthy enterprises for the public good. He stands high in the community where he has so long made his home, and those who know him best are numbered among his warmest friends.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.