Daniel Freeman

Daniel Freeman (1837–1918) was a landowner in southwest Los Angeles County, California, and a developer in downtown Los Angeles during the 19th century. He was the founder of the City of Inglewood, and the first farmer to engage extensively in wheat cultivation in Southern California. Personal Freeman was born in Norfolk County, Ontario, on June 30, 1837, the son of Daniel Wesley Freeman (1807–77) and Isabella Bailey (1811–56). He had a brother, Charles Edwin Freeman, and a sister, Phoebe Amelia Freeman. He attended the common schools in Norfolk County and then went to Lynn Grove Academy until 1857. He earned his law degree from Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto in 1864. Freeman was married to Catherine Grace Christie Higginson on July 13, 1866, in Vienna, Canada, and they moved to San Francisco, in 1873 and later to Los Angeles County. There were three children, Archibald Christie (1867), Charles (1868) and Grace E. (1870). His wife predeceased him.