| − | | + | '''Paul Butterfield Freeland''' (September 15, 1904 – November 1, 1976) was a [[Presbyterian]] [[clergy]]man, [[historian]], philanthropist, and genealogist in his native Crowley in Acadia Parish, [[Louisiana]]. |
| − | ''Paul Butterfield Freeland''' (September 15, 1904 – November 1, 1976) was a [[Presbyterian]] [[clergy]]man, [[historian]], [[philanthropist]], and genealogist in his native Crowley in Acadia Parish, [[Louisiana]]. | |
| | Freeland was the son of Charles J. Freeland, Sr., and the former Almyra Butterfield. He graduated in 1921 from Crowley High School and then attended the Presbyterian-affiliated Davidson College in Davidson, [[North Carolina]], where [[Woodrow Wilson]] had studied in the early 1870s. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from Davidson in 1925 and obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1928 from Union Presbyterian Seminary in [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]]. He did postgraduate study at New College in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].<ref name=dict>Paul Butterfield Freeland, ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), p. 321.</ref> | | Freeland was the son of Charles J. Freeland, Sr., and the former Almyra Butterfield. He graduated in 1921 from Crowley High School and then attended the Presbyterian-affiliated Davidson College in Davidson, [[North Carolina]], where [[Woodrow Wilson]] had studied in the early 1870s. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from Davidson in 1925 and obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1928 from Union Presbyterian Seminary in [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]]. He did postgraduate study at New College in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].<ref name=dict>Paul Butterfield Freeland, ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), p. 321.</ref> |