Freeman B. Van Kleeck
Updated May 19, 2019
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  1. 1. Summary
  2. 2. Biography & Family History
  3. 3. Family Tree & Genealogy
  4. 4. Obituary
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Freeman B. Van Kleeck (1901 - 1989)

Freeman B. Van Kleeck was born on June 23, 1901. He was born to Abram Van Kleeck and Bertha Barringer, with siblings Gordon, Dorothy, Roxy, Everett, Vera, and Elta. He died on September 9, 1989 in Daytona Beach, Florida at 88 years of age.
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 on in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida United States

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Average Age

Freeman B. Van Kleeck lived 17 years longer than the average Kleeck family member when he died at the age of 88.

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Father: Abram Van Kleeck
Mother: Bertha Barringer
Siblings: Gordon Van Kleeck, Dorothy Emily (Van Kleeck) Smith, Roxy (Van Kleeck) Yerry, Everett Van Kleeck, Vera Mae (Van Kleeck) Winne, and Elta Ann (Van Kleeck) Rifenburg

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1901 - In the year that Freeman B. Van Kleeck was born, Teddy Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. TR, as he was known, had been Vice-President for 6 months when President William McKinley was assassinated. At age 42, he became the youngest President to serve although John Kennedy, at age 43, was the youngest President elected. He was a popular progressive and was elected to a second term in 1904 as a Republican, winning 56.4% of the popular vote and 336 electoral votes.

1910 - When he was only 9 years old, the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished.

1912 - By the time he was only 11 years old, the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.

1954 - By the time he was 53 years old, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.

1989 - In the year of Freeman B. Van Kleeck's passing, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall fell. The Wall was built by the East Germans to keep East Berliners from escaping into West Berlin, separating families and friends. When the head of the East German Communist Party announced that day that East Berliners could cross whenever they pleased, happy crowds surged across the border. People brought tools and took parts of the hated wall.

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Freeman B. Van Kleeck died on September 9, 1989 in Daytona Beach, Florida at 88 years of age. No cause of death has been listed for Freeman. He was born on June 23, 1901. He was born to Abram Van Kleeck and Bertha Barringer, with siblings Gordon, Dorothy, Roxy, Everett, Vera, and Elta.

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