12.14.15

Print, Photographic

1955

Governor Orville Freeman Visit. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 5". Description: black and white photo of Governor Orville Freeman with group of men; man on far left is Dale Kritzer; man third from left is Don Brown; man fourth from left is Jerry Nelson; man next to Governor Freeman is Waseca Mayor, Leonard W. Tobin; man standing behind Mayor Tobin is Iver Jensen a Waseca tailor; man wearing dairy hat is Otto Wetterbom, the oldest living charter member of the Otisco Creamery; air port in background; Governor Freeman visited Waseca for June Dairy month.

Photos found at an estate sale in Owatonna, MN. Orville Freeman was born 9 May 1918 and died 20 February 2003. Freeman was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from 5 January 1955 to 2 January 1961. Freeman served in the United States Marines during the battle of the Bougainville Campaign of November 1943 and was shot and injured in the jaw and left arm.