Job Freeth

People Buried Here

Epitaph

Description

Job with a grandson (son of his son Charles James Freeth & Margaret Masters Luxford)

The death is announced of Mr Job Freeth of Masterton, father of Messrs J. J. and C. J. Freeth, of this town. He arrived in Wellington in February 1857 and proceeded to Wanganui, where ha had charge of a school for some time. Subsequently he pursued the same calling in Rangitikei and then changed his vocation for that of farming. Four years ago he removed to Masterton and was for many years previously engaged in farming operations at Turakina. His mental and physical faculties, considering his great age, was wonderfully preserved till within a few days of his death. He had a taste for literature and was an occasional contributor of verse to colonial serials.

He was born in Birmingham, England and was in early life a mechanical engineer. Hi natural ingenuity would have given him a name among the great inventors of the day, but he was unselfish to a fault, at all time communicative and he lived to see some of his best ideas coolly appropriated by unscrupulous friends. The perforating machine now applied to postage stamps and commercial documents so generally was one of his inventions. So also was Britain's patent tabular roasting jack, an improved sweeping machine and several other patents.