Walter Jackson Freeman II |Walter Jackson Freeman II|
|Born||November 14, 1895 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United
States |Died||May 31, 1972(aged 76)| University of Pennsylvania
Medical School |Known for||Popularizing the lobotomy Invention
of the "ice pick" lobotomy |Children||Walter Jackson Freeman
III| |Parents||Walter Jackson Freeman I| |Relatives||William
Williams Keen, grandfather| Biography and early years  Walter J.
Freeman was born on November 14, 1895 to a privileged family. He
was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by his parents. Freeman
was also known for being a bit of an oddball and he complemented
his theatrical approach to demonstrating surgery by sporting a
cane, goatee, and a wide-brimmed hat. Working in the field of
medicine ran in his family and his grandfather, William Williams
Keen, was well known as a surgeon in the Civil War. His father
was also a very successful doctor. Freeman attended Yale
University, which at the time was Yale College, beginning in
1912 and graduated with his un