Judge J. B. Freidheim, Ouachita County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

Judge J. B. Freidheim was raised and educated in the State of Louisiana. His education was finished at the Louisiana State Seminary and was
finished at the Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy in 1867. (Gen. William T. Sherman was superintendent of the seminary prior to
the war). In 1868 he was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Arkansas. During the war, he, though quite youthful, was engaged on
the Rebel side. When Gen. Steele's army was advancing on Camden, he was detailed on a wagon-master and had charge of a train of wagons
containing army stores, moving them to Washington, Arkansas. At the close of the war, being about eighteen years old, he entered the above
named seminary, and upon the completion of his studies, he located at Camden. Believing the war was an error and it was the duty of every true
Southern man to accept the situation and work to make this one grand Union and advance the interests of the Southland, his opinions and
sentiments naturally placed him in the ranks of the Republican party, in which he has ever since taken prominent part. He was presidential
elector in 1884 and 1888, for this, the Third District. He is now a member of the Republican State Central Committee and also of the State
Executive Committee. He has occupied the bench, and is now justice of this township. He is prominently associated with the material progress
and development of the community, both in private and public life. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Camden Water Works Company, and
the Camden Electric Light & Power Company, also secretary of the Ouachita Valley Fair Association, and the general manager of the Camden,
Louisiana & Sabine Passenger Railway Company. He finds time to take interest in the schools and is a director of this school district for a
number of years. He ahs been a grand representative in the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows since 1884, and is re-elected for next two
years. Judge Freidheim is also a Mason, K. of P., Royal Arcanum, L. of H., and a member of various secret and civic orders and clubs. He was
married in 1872 to Miss Melanie Goldsmith of New Orleans, by whom he has four children: Julia G. (aged seventeen, lately graduated with
honors at Camden High School), J. Leon, Jr., Harry and Hattie (the latter ten years of age). Judge Freidheim and wife are members of the Jewish
Church, Mrs. Freidheim, for a number of years, being in charge of the Sabbath schools. They are both esteemed by the entire
community.