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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
|name=Paul Buttterfield Freeland
|name=Paul Buttterfield Freeland
(Louisiana minister, historian, and philanthropist)
(Louisiana minister, historian,<br> and philanthropist)
|birth_date=September 15, 1904
|birth_date=September 15, 1904
|birth_place=Crowley, Acadia Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA
|birth_place=Crowley, Acadia Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA
Freeland wrote ''The First Presbyterian Church of Crowley, Louisiana, 1890-1965'' and coauthored ''Acadia Parish, Louisiana: A History to 1900''. His collection of [[photograph]]s and memorabilia of the Crowley area is located in the [[archives]] of the Acadia Parish Library.<ref name=dict/> He also donated a collection to the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Stamp Alliance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623230509/http://www.csalliance.org/csa-1.htm|title=A concise history of the Confederate Stamp Alliance|publisher=Web.archive.org|accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
Freeland wrote ''The First Presbyterian Church of Crowley, Louisiana, 1890-1965'' and coauthored ''Acadia Parish, Louisiana: A History to 1900''. His collection of [[photograph]]s and memorabilia of the Crowley area is located in the [[archives]] of the Acadia Parish Library.<ref name=dict/> He also donated a collection to the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Stamp Alliance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623230509/http://www.csalliance.org/csa-1.htm|title=A concise history of the Confederate Stamp Alliance|publisher=Web.archive.org|accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
At his death, Freeland left a stamp collection which sold for $2 million to four Presbyterian churches. A fourth of that amount financed the building of a library annex at the Presbyterian Historical Foundation at Montreat, North Carolina. Dedicated on August 15, 1982, the annex was named "Paul B. Freeland Hall". <ref name=dict/> The "Paul B. Freeland Professorship" is given in his honor at Davidson College, in [[biology]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203144442/http://www2.davidson.edu/academics/acad_depts/premed/contact.asp |title=Pre-medicine at Davidson|publisher=Archive.org|accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0199259747.001.0001/acprof-9780199259748|title=From and Ontological Point of View|author=John Heil|accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
At his death, Freeland left a stamp collection which sold for $2 million to four Presbyterian churches. A fourth of that amount financed the building of a library annex at the Presbyterian Historical Foundation at Montreat, North Carolina. Dedicated on August 15, 1982, the annex was named "Paul B. Freeland Hall". <ref name=dict/> The "Paul B. Freeland Professorship" is given in his honor at Davidson College, in [[biology]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203144442/http://www2.davidson.edu/academics/acad_depts/premed/contact.asp |title=Pre-medicine at Davidson|publisher=Archive.org|accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0199259747.001.0001/acprof-9780199259748|title=From an Ontological Point of View|author=John Heil|accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
He is interred at the Crowley Protestant Cemetery.<ref name=dict/>
He is interred at the Crowley Protestant Cemetery.<ref name=dict/>