Daniel H. Freeman

(1826-1908) lived near Beatrice, Gage County. Farmer, thought to have been the first, or among the first, to file a claim for 160 acres of land under the Homestead Act on January 1, 1863; his land was selected in 1939 as the site of the Homestead National Monument of America. Consult Reader's Digest, January 1946, pp. 109-113 and Nebraska History, Vol 43 (March 1962) 1-27 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, May 16, 1999, pp. E-1, E-4.

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