Bio of SPRATT, Dr. Charles Nelson (b.1874), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 625
CHARLES NELSON SPRATT, M. D.
Dr. Charles Nelson Spratt is a physician and surgeon who has successfully
followed his profession in Minneapolis during the past seventeen years, making a
specialty of the treatment of diseases of the eye and ear. He was born in Le
Sueur, Minnesota, on the 21st of June, 1874, a son of Dr. Charles J. and Alice
B. (Nelson) Spratt, both of whom were natives of Auburn, New York, and removed
westward to Minnesota in the year 1870. The father, a graduate of the Bellevue
Medical College of New York city, was actively engaged in the practice of
medicine in Minneapolis from 1887 until 1914, or for a period of twenty-seven
years, gaining recognition as one of the prominent representatives of the
profession here and serving on the staff of the leading hospitals of the city.
His demise occurred in 1914.
Charles N. Spratt supplemented his public school training by a course of study
in the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Science in 1897. When his more specifically literary education was
completed ho entered the Johns Hopkins Medical University, which conferred upon
him the degree of M. D. in 1901, after which he spent a year as interne in the
Johns Hopkins Hospital. Subsequently he was identified for a similar period with
the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and spent the succeeding year in the
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Boston. In 1905 he came to Minneapolis
and has here remained throughout the intervening period to the present time,
being accorded an extensive and gratifying practice. He specializes in the
treatment of diseases of the eye and ear, in which branch of the profession he
is particularly proficient, and he keeps in close touch with the most advanced
work of the medical science through his membership connection with the Hennepin
County Medical Society, the American Ophthalmological Society and the American
College of Surgeons.
In 1919 Dr. Spratt was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Pearce. By a former
marriage he has five children, namely: Alice Catharine, Margaret Elizabeth,
Louis Gordon, Charles Webster and Cynthia Fish. The Doctor belongs to the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity and has a wide acquaintance in social as well as
professional circles of this city, while his personal characteristics make for
popularity wherever he is known.