Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B
Lawrence County

MILTON FREESE, a miller of Lawrence County, Ky., was born in Medina County,
OH., November 10, 1819.  His father, John Freese, was associated judge of
Medina County, was a native of Kinderhook N.Y., was a school-teacher and the
tutor of Martin Van Buren.  He settled in Ohio about 1800.  Milton Freese
came to Kentucky in 1847, settled at Prestonburg, and had charge of a coal
mine for a Cincinnati firm.  In 1861 he entered the army as a cavalry
wagon-master, under Gen. John L. Williams, but was soon taken prisoner.  In
1863 or 1864 he located in Louisa, and at first was engaged in steamboating
on the Big Sandy and Ohio Rivers.  He is now proprietor of the Louisa Roller
Flouring-Mills, which have a capacity of seventy-five barrels per day.  In
1848 Mr. Freese married Mis Minerva Vaughan, of Prestonburg, daughter of
Burrell Vaughan.  This lady died in 1865, and in November, 1867, Mr. Freese
married Miss Kate McGuire, of Louisa daughter of Nicholas McGuire.  To his
first marriage were born three children: Mary, Kate and Frank; to the second
have also been born three children: Fannie, Sallie and Charlott.  Mr. Freese
served as Postmaster at Prestonburg for several years.  He is a Freemason,
and is one of the prosperous business men of Lawrence County.

Freese VanBuren Williams Vaughan McGuire 
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Medina-OH NY 

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