Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Jr.

Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Jr. (August 11, 1912 – January 8, 2005) was the author of Passages to Freedom, about his escape from a prison camp in Italy during World War II.

Frelinghuysen was born in East Hampton, New York, the son of Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Sr., a New Jersey state senator and later U.S. senator. He graduated from Princeton University in 1934. During World War II, he served as an artillery captain in the First Infantry Division in North Africa where he was captured on November 23, 1942 by German troops and taken to a prison camp in Italy. He and another American POW escaped on September 23, 1943 and rejoined allied forces.[1]

After the war, Frelinghuysen worked in insurance and later managed the family dairy business in Somerville, New Jersey. At the end of his life, he was living in Far Hills, New Jersey and died of pneumonia in Morristown.[2][3]

In 1916 he was painted as a young boy, with his mother Emily Brewster Frelinghuysen, in a full length portrait by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury, which was later donated to the Newark Museum, New Jersey.

References

  1. ↑ Murray, David (March 31, 1991). "Cold, Scared, Hungry and Free". New York Times.
  2. ↑ Bayot, Jennifer (January 13, 2005). "Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, Memoirist of Wartime Escape, Dies at 92". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-01. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, whose memoir, "Passages to Freedom," chronicled his escape from a prison camp in Italy during World War II, died on Saturday in Morristown, N.J. He was 92 and lived in Far Hills, N.J. The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter Barbara F. Israel.
  3. ↑ "Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, 92, WWII POW, marathon runner". The Star-Ledger. January 11, 2005.
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