BUELL H. SPRAGUE, M. D.
Dr. Buell H. Sprague has, in the practice of his profession, specialized in surgery and was 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, he 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 physician 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.

-From:History of Dakota Territory, George W. Kingsbury, Vol. 4, 1915