Oral History Interview with Sidney Freeborn, July 2, 1972 Page: 1
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Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. FreebornInterviewer: Dr. A. Ray Stephens
Place of Interview: Fulton, TexasDr. Stephens:
Mr. Freeborn;Date: July 1, 1972
This is an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mills
Freeborn, Box 143, Fulton, Texas 78358, on July 1,
1972. Mr. Freeborn, would you mention where you were
born, something about your background, and then of
your developing interests in Aransas County.
I was born in San Antonio on Avenue C that is now
Broadway in 1885. And my father and mother came to
San Antonio from New York, and he went to work with
the . . . it ended up Lockwood
National Bank. Originally, it was . . . well, it's
skipped my mind right now. It was . . . oh, there
were three names on there, but it ended up the Lockwood
National Bank. And we spent our summers down here
from the time I was a baby. We came in the first year
the railroad came in--in 1888. And Colonel Fulton
gave a banquet in his mansion over there honoring the
people that came in in the first year of the railroad.
We were staying at the Shell Hotel, and he invited
everybody from the Shell Hotel over there. The Shell
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Stephens, A. Ray & Freeborn, Sidney. Oral History Interview with Sidney Freeborn, July 2, 1972, book, July 2, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529108/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.