S. D. Freeman was born in Potter County, Pa., on January 29, 1829. His father removed to Shippen Township in 1832, at which place Dr. Freeman attended the common schools. By hard study he fitted himself to enter the office of Dr. Wisner, a practicing physician of the borough, and a year later entered the Buffalo Medical University, from which he graduated with high honors in 1856. He married Miss Lucretia A. Reisdorph in 1855.
Upon the organization of the Bucktail regiment he was appointed surgeon, but his efficiency attracting the attention of his superior officers, he was, in 1862, promoted to the position of Medical Director and stationed at Baltimore, where he remained until the close of the war. Subsequently he was appointed Medical Director of the Northwest Department, filling that position with headquarters at St. Paul, during Custer's campaign against the Indians. He was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel at the close of the war for meritorious services.
In 1876 he was correspondent for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate, and visited Mexico with the committee during the complications which existed at about that time. He established a Sanitarium at Smethport, known by his name, in which he died on August 14, 1894.
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Military Record
Surgeon, Mustered in May 29, 1861-resigned, October 1, 1862.
