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Judge J. B. Freidheim was raised and educated in the State of Louisiana. His education was finished at the Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy in 1867. (Gen. William T. Sherman was superintendent of the seminary prior to the war). In 1868 he was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Arkansas. During the war, he, though quite youthful, was engaged on the Rebel side. When Gen. Steele’s army was advancing on Camden, he was detailed as a wagon-master and had charge of a train of wagons containing army stores, moving them to Washington, Ark. At the close of the war, being about eighteen years old, he entered the above-named seminary, and upon the completion of his studies, he located at Camden. Believing the war was an error and it was the duty of every true Southern man to accept the situation and work to make this one grand Union and advance the interests of the Southland, his opinions and sentiments naturally placed him in the ranks of the Republican party, in which he has ever since taken prominent part. He was presidential elector in 1884 and 1888, for this, the Third District. He is now a member of the Republican State Central Committee and also of the State Executive Committee. He has occupied the bench, and is now justice of this township. He is prominently associated with the material progress and development of the community, both in private and public life. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Camden Water Works Company, and the Camden Electric Light & Power Company, also secretary of the Ouachita Valley Fair Association, and the general manager of the Camden, Louisiana & Sabine Passenger Railway Company. He finds time to take interest in the schools and is a director of this school district for a number of years. He has been a grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows since 1884, and is re-elected for next two years. Judge Friedheim is also a Mason, K. of P., Royal Arcanum, L. of H., and a member of various secret and civic orders and clubs. He was married in 1872 to Miss Melanie Goldsmith, of New Orleans, by whom he has four children: Julia G. (aged seventeen, lately graduated with honors at Camden High School), J. Leon, Jr., Harry and Hattie (the latter ten years of age). Judge Friedheim and wife are members of the Jewish Church, Mrs. Friedheim, for a number of years, being in charge of the Sabbath-schools. They are both esteemed by the entire community.