Samuel Sprecher, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 319-320 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				SAMUEL SPRECHER, M D.  

	Dr. Samuel Sprecher, who has been actively engaged in the 
practice of medicine at Tripp since 1903, is the pioneer physician of 
his locality. His birth occurred in Russia on the 7th of November, 
1866, his parents being Christian and Justina Sprecher, both of whom 
are deceased. They emigrated to the United States, and in 1877 came to 
South Dakota, taking up their abode on a homestead claim in Hutchinson 
county. Throughout his active business career the father devoted his 
attention to general agricultural pursuits.  

	Samuel Sprecher, who was eleven years of age when he came to this 
state with his parents, acquired his early education in the district 
schools and subsequently attended the Dakota Wesleyan University at 
Mitchell. Having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life 
work, he entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Chicago and 
later matriculated in the Illinois Medical College of that city, being 
graduated from the latter institution in 1902. He first opened an 
office at Eureka, McPherson county, South Dakota, and in 1903 located 
in Tripp, where he has since remained, a gratifying and constantly 
growing practice being accorded him as his skill and ability have 
become more widely recognized. He keeps abreast with the progress of 
the profession by post-graduate work each year and is also a member of 
the Mitchell District Medical Society, the South Dakota State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association.  

	Dr. Sprecher has been married twice, first wedding Miss 
Wilhelmina Isaak, who died in 1899, leaving four children, namely: 
Edward, Adolph, Helena and Arthur. For his second wife he chose Miss 
Christina Werre, a daughter of Joseph Werre and a representative of an 
honored pioneer family of this state. By this union there have been 
born two sons, Oscar and Herman.  

	In politics Dr. Sprecher is a stanch republican, while his 
religious faith is that of the German Lutheran church. Motoring affords 
him both recreation and pleasure, but his leisure hours are few, for 
the demands made upon him in a professional capacity are numerous. He 
came to South Dakota nearly four decades ago and has since been an 
interested witness of its development as well as an active participant 
in the work of progress and upbuilding.