Background
Freeman was born in West Bridgton, Maine and received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876.
Freeman was born in West Bridgton, Maine and received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is noted for his efforts to design and build the Charles River Dam, advising the government on dam and lock foundations for the Panama Canal, and influencing the design of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s new campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Freeman was the design engineer for several water projects, including the Lake Spaulding Dam, the Holter Dam, the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, the Charles River Dam, the Keokuk Dam, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the Panama Canal). Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, June, 1876.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, June, 1876. Elected Honorary Member Phi Beta Kappa at Brown University, 1901. Doctor of Science, Brown University, 1904. Doctor of Science, Tufts College, 1905. Member National Academy of Sciences, 1918 Doktor Ingenieur, Ehrenhalber, der Sachsischen Technischen Hochschule, Dresden, Germany, June, 1925 Honorary Member, Marsaryk Academy of Works, Czecho-Slovakia, 1926. Doctor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1927 Ehrenbürger (Honorary Member) der Badischen Technischen Hochschule, Karlsruhe, Germany, January, 1929 Doctor of Science, Yale University, 1931 Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Forschungs-Institutes in München und Walchcnsee, Bavaria, Germany, January, 1931. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during World War I, and served as chairman from 1918–1919.
