DR. L. H. SPRAGUE, Green Spring, was born in Vermont, January 21, 1821. He obtained a common school and an academic education, then commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry Ranney, who at that time was lieutenant-governor of Vermont. He afterward attended Casselton Medical College, where he graduated in 1844, entering upon the practice of his profession at Clifton Park, N. Y., where he continued in practice seventeen years. He then went to Clifton Springs and engaged in the water-cure business; from there he proceeded to Cleveland and engaged with Dr. Seeley for three years in the same line; he next came to Green Spring and assisted in organizing a water-cure and sanitarium, holding the office of physician and general director of that institution. Five years later he disposed of his interest in the water-cure and sanitarium, but has been medical director of the institution fully half the time since then. For the last five years the Doctor has made a specialty of treatment with electricity. He has been P. Dl. of the order of F. & A. M. in Green Spring, and was formerly a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically he is a Republican. Dr. Sprague was married, March 29, 1843, to Miss Phelene Howe, born February 18, 1824, in Townsend, Windham Co., Vt., and a direct descendant of Lord John Howe, of England (spoken of in Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn"). To Dr. and Mrs. Sprague were born two children: Lorenzo, a physician and druggist in Pemberville, Wood Co., Ohio; and Adelaide, wife of Henry Thompson, of Syracuse, N. Y.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.710-711
ADAMS TOWNSHIP