Mansfield Freeman was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 16, 1895, the son of Luther Freeman, a Methodist minister. He was one of the original management group that started an insurance business in China that became the

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(AIG). He also was a prominent scholar of Chinese philosophy and a generous philanthropist. He died on November 17, 1992, at his farm in Greensboro, Vermont at the age of 97. Freeman was also the founder of the Freeman Foundation. He was an alumnus of

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in Connecticut, year of 1916. The

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was established at Wesleyan in his honor. In addition, his endowment established the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at the university. Freeman's published works include an introduction to and translation of ''Preservation of Learning'' by Yen Yuan, a 17th-century Chinese philosopher. In 1990, he co-authored ''

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and Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning'' with

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, who is now a professor at Yale.

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Short biographical sketch on Yale University Website
* ttps://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7D9123AF933A15752C1A964958260&sec=&spon= Obituary of Mansfield Freeman on New York Times {{DEFAULTSORT:Freeman, Mansfield 1895 births 1992 deaths American International Group Businesspeople in insurance People from Waltham, Massachusetts Wesleyan University alumni 20th-century American philanthropists