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OBITUARY: JOHN FINLEY FREEMAN (1929-1965)

Mrs. JO F. Freeman

John F. Freeman, a native of Wisconsin, re-

ceived an A.B. from Harvard in 1951 and a Ph.D., Har-
vard9 in 1960, presenting for his thesis in the His-

tory of American Civilization a biography9 He    Rowe
Schoolcraft, 1793-1864. He taught at Bates Colege,

was a guest assistant professor in the history of an-
thropology at the University of California, Berkeley,
and at the time of his death in March, 1965, was on
the faculty of history at Kansas State University.

He had published a number of articles in ethnohistory
and the history of anthropology, and was the author

of a guide to the American Indian manuscript sources

in the Library of the American Philosophical Society,
to be published by the APS in 1965. Beginning June,
1965, he was to have begun work on a history of an-

thropological societies and institutions in the Unit-
ed States, 1767-1940, under a grant from the National
Science Foundation. He was a member of the American
Historical Association, the American Indian Ethnohis-
toric Conference and was a Research Associate of the
Library of the American Philosophical Society.