BIO: EVERS S. FREED, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 356
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    EVERS S. FREED, M. D., one of the leading lights in the medical profession
  of Shippensburg, is a native of Virginia, having been born in the Shenandoah
  Valley, Sept. 12, 1864. His paternal grandfather, William Freed, was a native
  of Germany; he married a Miss Dougherty.
    
    Rev. John D. Freed, of the United Brethren Church, father of Evers S., was
  born in Rockingham, Va., in 1818. Arriving at manhood's estate, he entered
  the ministry and devoted forty years to that calling, dying in 1891, at
  Shippensburg, Pa. His remains were interred at Mechanicstown, Md. The Rev.
  Mr. Freed married Miss Elizabeth Rhinehart, a native of Maryland, and
  daughter of Samuel Rhinehart, a prominent citizen of that State.
    
    Dr. Freed was reared in his native place and received a portion of his
  education there and the remainder in Pennsylvania. His father being a
  minister, the family lived at the several places at which his charges were
  located. Leaving his literary course, Dr. Freed became a student of medicine,
  reading with Dr. Zimmerman of Frederick county, Md. He then entered the
  Baltimore Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1887. After
  graduation Dr. Freed located at Newburg, Cumberland county, but after a short
  time, he settled at Shippensburg, where he has devoted his entire time to his
  profession.
    
    In 1887, Dr. Freed married Miss Violet Nissley, of Derry Church, Dauphin
  county, Pa., daughter of Jacob and Mary (Landis) Nissley. One daughter,
  Edith, has been born of this marriage. Dr. Freed is a member of the
  Shippensburg board of health, and he is a man widely known and most highly
  respected, not only as an efficient and popular physician, but also as an
  honorable and courteous gentleman.