Dr. Freeman grew up in Crawfordsville, Indiana, graduated from high school there and enrolled at Wabash College. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II, which recognized his scholarship and abilities and assigned him to Chicago, Illinois to attend Northwestern University Medical School on an accelerated program. On receiving his Medical Degree, he served two years at Great Lakes Naval Training Center and then took a three-year pediatric residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital, was Chief Resident and became a Board-Certified Pediatrician.

Dr. Freeman came to Beloit as the sixth member of the Beloit Clinic, where he practiced medicine and watched the Clinic grow for the next 33 years until his retirement in 1987. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and State of Wisconsin Academy of Pediatrics. He served as President of the Beloit Clinic, and President and Chief of Staff of Beloit Memorial Hospital. He served the Clinic on its building committee for the construction of its Prairie Avenue facility and was school physician for the Beloit School System. Despite the demanding call on his time as a physician, being called out in all hours to attend to a sick child and give assurance to parents that their child was in good hands, Dr. Freeman, a dedicated family man, found time to become a valuable servant of his community.

He served on the Board of Directors of the Family Service Association. He was a member of the Beloit Library Advisory Commission and Beloit Historical Society. A member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, he served in its Vestry and helped in Old Rectory Sales. A member of the Beloit Country Club, he was a championship golfer and tennis player. As President of the Rotary Club of Beloit, he spearheaded the Rotary Polio Plus Campaign, to seek for children of the World, vaccine for the eradication of this disease. Dr. Freeman married Elizabeth Vickery Freeman in 1950, who predeceased him in 1994. They had five children and twelve grandchildren. In 1996 he married again to Katharine Hall Scott Freeman, who survived him. Physician, community leader, family man, he is described by a colleague:

“Many times he was a crucial factor in the survival of sick babies in the nursery. Throughout his career he kept up with medical literature, he was state of the art all his life. He was kind and gentle as he was efficient and decisive. His thoroughness and diagnostic acumen was legendary.”