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 in November 23, 1942 by German troops and taken to a prison camp in Italy. He and another American POW escaped in September 23, 1943 and rejoined allied forces. [cite news |title=Cold, Scared, Hungry and Free |first=David |last=Murray |work=New York Times |date=March 31, 1991 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D91E31F932A05750C0A967958260 ]

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. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, Memoirist of Wartime Escape, Dies at 92 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/obituaries/13frelinghuysen.html |quote=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. |work=New York Times |date=January 13, 2005 |accessdate=2008-07-01 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, 92, WWII POW, marathon runner |work=The Star-Ledger |date=January 11, 2005 |accessdate=2008-07-01 ]

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