28-06-2009, 08:27 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/20/obitua...al-97.html
Mansfield Freeman, Insurance Official, 97
Published: Friday, November 20, 1992
Mansfield Freeman, a retired insurance company executive who helped to develop the insurance industry in China in the 1920's and 30's, died on Tuesday at his home in Greensboro, Vt. He was 97 years old.
Mr. Freeman died of respiratory failure, said John Wooster, a spokesman for the American International Group.
Mr. Freeman, a retired vice president of C. V. Starr & Company, was the last surviving member of the original management group that started an insurance business in China that became the American International Group. During his career, Mr. Freeman held numerous senior executive posts with companies belonging to the group.
In 1921 Mr. Freeman, who spoke Mandarin Chinese, was a professor of philosophy and English at Tsing Hua College in Beijing. That year, he became one of the first employees of Asia Life Insurance Company. He was president of the company throughout much of the 1930's before returning to the United States in 1941.
Mr. Freeman was born in Waltham, Mass. His wife, Mary, died in 1983.
He is survived by his son, Houghton, of Tokyo; two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Mansfield Freeman, Insurance Official, 97
Published: Friday, November 20, 1992
Mansfield Freeman, a retired insurance company executive who helped to develop the insurance industry in China in the 1920's and 30's, died on Tuesday at his home in Greensboro, Vt. He was 97 years old.
Mr. Freeman died of respiratory failure, said John Wooster, a spokesman for the American International Group.
Mr. Freeman, a retired vice president of C. V. Starr & Company, was the last surviving member of the original management group that started an insurance business in China that became the American International Group. During his career, Mr. Freeman held numerous senior executive posts with companies belonging to the group.
In 1921 Mr. Freeman, who spoke Mandarin Chinese, was a professor of philosophy and English at Tsing Hua College in Beijing. That year, he became one of the first employees of Asia Life Insurance Company. He was president of the company throughout much of the 1930's before returning to the United States in 1941.
Mr. Freeman was born in Waltham, Mass. His wife, Mary, died in 1983.
He is survived by his son, Houghton, of Tokyo; two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.