He is at present a director of the First National Bank of Port Chester. For over ten years he was trustee of the village, and is now its president. He is also health oflicer of the town and a member of the County Medical Society. He married, on the 27th of April, 1842, Miss Ann Maria Green, of Port Chester, and has had three children, -- one daughter, who died in childhood, and two sons, who are still living. Morton J. Sands, M.D., the oldest, practices with his

father, and Purdy G., the youngest, who holds the position of town clerk, is a civil engineer at Port Chester. Dr. Sands has also a grandchild, -- Benjamin J., a son of Morton J.

NORMAX K. FREEMAN.

Norman K. Freeman, M.D., who is the oldest ])hysician in the southern portion of Westchester County, was born in Warren, Herkimer Countj', N. Y., May 3, 1814. The ancestors of the family were three brothers who came from the north of England, where the home is still found, in the latter part of the seventeenth century. They landed in Philadelphia, but one of them went to Massachusetts, and has many descendants in that jjortion of the country and in the northern part of this State. Another of the brothers was drowned in the Delaware River, and his widow, with the surviving brother, made their home at Woodbridge, N. J., where four generations oi' their descendants are interred in the old buryiiig-ground.

Thomas Freeman, one of the descendants, was a soldier of the Revolution and a prisoner in the Sugar- House in New York, and on board a prison ship, from which he escaped by swimming. He married Sallie Moore, of Scotch descent. Their children were John, Smith, Ariel, Thomas, Linus, Moores, Rachel (wife of Moses Freeman, her cousin), Polly (wife of Thomas Edgar) and Henry.