History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . xpress Company, and still later hewas identified with the Potter, Parlin Company, of NewYork, as assistant secretary and treasurer for a number ofyears. At the opening of the Spanish-American war hewas city engineer of Lawrenceburg. HANSON G. FREEMAN. Second Lieutenant Hanson G. Freeman was bornOctober 30, 1859, at Prattsburg, Indiana. He graduatedfrom the Lawrenceburg high school, and later took a twoyears course at Moores Hill College. Soon after com-pleting his education he engaged in the coal business atLawre
History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . xpress Company, and still later hewas identified with the Potter, Parlin Company, of NewYork, as assistant secretary and treasurer for a number ofyears. At the opening of the Spanish-American war hewas city engineer of Lawrenceburg. HANSON G. FREEMAN. Second Lieutenant Hanson G. Freeman was bornOctober 30, 1859, at Prattsburg, Indiana. He graduatedfrom the Lawrenceburg high school, and later took a twoyears course at Moores Hill College. Soon after com-pleting his education he engaged in the coal business atLawrenceburg, in which he continued until the outbreakof the war. On September 5, 1898, Lieutenant Freeman was de-tailed as regimental commissary -of subsistence and re-mained in that capacity until the muster-out of the or-ganization. The father of Lieutenant Freeman servedduring the entire Civil war. HISTORY OF COMPANY M. Company M was organized early in April, 1898, byGeorge A. West, George W. Fitch and Hanson G. Free-man as a battery, as it was expected it would be first to n c. 252 HISTORY OF THE see service in our partly unprotected coast cities. Thecompany was tendered to the Governor April 8, 1898, butwhen in a few days the situation developed that a batterywould have no chance to get into the service, the companywas quickly changed to a company of infantry. Lieutenant Freemans coal office, at the corner ofHigh and Vine streets, was the company the plans were often revised to outwit the opposi-tion of many others who were anxious to split the organi-zation that they might have the honor of leading the onlycompany that Dearborn county would get to furnish duringthe war. In union there was strength, and Company Mstood loyally together and all opposition either fell by thewayside or extended a helping hand. The company tried to get in under the first call, want-ing to represent this part of the state in lieu of the Auroracompany, whose place was vacant in the
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