Buell H. Sprague, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 943-944 in "History of Dakota 
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				BUELL H. SPRAGUE, M. D. 

	Dr. Buell H. Sprague has, in the practice of his profession, 
specialized in surgery and v as the promoter and founder of the Sprague 
Hospital, which he is now successfully conducting at Huron. He is a 
native of the neighboring state of Iowa, born December 6, 1886, his 
parents being Hubert and Caroline (Green) Sprague. He supplemented his 
early educational training by study in the high school and then in a 
review of the different phases of business life he determined upon the 
practice of medicine as a calling which he believed would prove 
congenial and hoped would prove profitable. He was graduated from the 
Sioux City Medical College with the class of 1908, and has taken post-
graduate work in different centers of learning each year since that 
time. He is a very close student of the profession, keeping in touch 
with the progress of the times along the lines of medical and surgical 
science. He came to Huron in 1908 and in 1910 joined Dr. Wood in 
establishing what was known as the Wood & Sprague Hospital. He was 
afterward connected with the Huron Hospital Association as surgeon and 
on the 1st of January, 1913, be established the Sprague Hospital, which 
is splendidly equipped. It is supplied with ten beds, has all the 
latest surgical implements and equipment and the utmost attention is 
paid to neatness, sanitation and all those aids of the l>hysician and 
surgeon that are now regarded as indispensable. In his practice Dr. 
Sprague has always specialized in surgery. He has comprehensive 
knowledge of the component parts of the human body and the onslaughts 
made upon it by disease, he possesses a steady nerve and is cool and 
collected in times of greatest stress. 

	On the 25th of November, 1910, Dr. Sprague was united in marriage 
to Miss Jeanette Hendrickson, of Iowa, and they have a pleasant home in 
Huron, which is the center of warm hearted hospitality. Dr. Sprague 
belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks. Along more strictly professional lines he is connected 
with the South Dakota State Medical Society, the Sioux Valley Medical 
Association and the American Medical Association and he thus keeps in 
touch with the advanced thought of the profession learning in the 
discussion of the work of distinguished physicians and surgeons. He is 
a young man but has already achieved success that many an older 
practitioner might well envy.