The papers are divided into Personal and Professional papers. The Robert Freeman Papers document Freeman's career as a pioneer of the life insurance industry in Ghana, and to some degree Nigeria.
Freeman and his partner's innovative efforts in life insurance in Ghana drew interest from other African nations and Freeman's insurance career in Africa would include actuarial and legal consultation for insurance corporations in Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa among others. In 1962, the two flourishing companies were incorporated into Ghana's newly-formed State Insurance Corporation under Freeman's leadership. It was the first domestic property and casualty company in Ghana. That same year, Freeman and Tandy also formed the Ghana General Insurance Company to sell automobile and fire insurance.
By 1959, the company was 150 - strong and branch offices had been opened in other major Ghanaian cities. The Gold Coast Insurance Company recruited twenty-five insurance agents - the first in the colony - and gave them a two-week training course. and David Jones, established the Gold Coast (later Ghana) Insurance Company. Eleven years later he and two lawyer friends, Vertner W. In 1945 he entered the life insurance industry as the vice-president and actuary for United Mutual Life Insurance, an African-American insurance company. was born on Apin New York City and graduated from Lincoln University in 1941. Robert Freeman papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library Repository Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division Access to materials Request an in-person research appointment.Ī notable pioneer of the life insurance industry in Africa, Robert Turner Freeman, Jr. 8 linear feet (2 archival boxes) Language Materials in English Preferred Citation William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register.Creator Freeman, Robert Turner, 1918-2001 Call number Sc MG 795 Physical description. Des Moines man sentenced to 50 years for running down, killing DMACC professor Lauren Rice.Iowa DCI to investigate police shooting of suspect in Waterloo.The mandatory sentence for first-degree murder in Iowa is life in prison.
Gates is scheduled to be sentenced May 28. "They handled all that very well, and I'm proud of the work they've done." "It took a while to try the case, over a week, and I think justice was done," he said, adding praises for the work done by Cox and fellow Assistant County Attorney Daniel Voogt. Polk County Attorney John Sarcone said the case was a complex prosecution made more difficult by changes in courtroom procedure due to COVID-19. That casing ejected from that gun when Dayquawne Gates shot Robert Freeman."Īfter the verdict, Gates' attorneys declined to comment. "I know the defendant wants there to be some question, because that casing didn't magically appear under the hood of that car," she said. ". You cannot decide there was reasonable doubt in this case because of the mention of confirmation bias."Ĭlaims of other supposed rivals who might be behind the killing are nothing more than speculation, Cox said. "It's a little loosey-squishy, the way is being thrown around in this trial," she said. Previously: Des Moines man killed in Saturday morning shootingĪs for the incriminating bullet casing, Kepes suggested it might be a case of mistaken matching by crime lab technicians, who she said could have fallen prey to "confirmation bias." Cox, in her final statement, rejected that theory. "Isn't that evidence of reasonable doubt?" she asked. "How could you fail to have reasonable doubt?" Freeman, and there's no evidence they had any contact with each other," Kepes said, claiming that Freeman had "a number of enemies" who were believed to be in Des Moines at the time but whom police did not investigate. Gates insisted he didn't know Mr. Freeman, he has nothing against Mr.
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