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J. B. SPRAGUE, London, a prominent physician and surgeon of London, was born in Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio, June 15, 1821. His father, James Sprague, was a native of Massachusetts and came to Ohio about 1816 or 1818. He was an early pioneer of Clark County, residing eight miles east of Springfield until his death. He was born December 9, 1784, and died July 10, 1844, leaving an estate of 360 acres. and considerable personal property. He married Polly Bailey, a native of New Hampshire. Eight children were given them, five daughters and three sons. Six of these are living to-day, four daughters and two sons. Mrs. Sprague departed this life in 1871 or 1872. James B. Sprague was reared on a farm, receiving a high school education. He taught school in early life for seven years at different intervals, and during the latter part of this time studied medicine for two years with Dr. Rogers (now deceased), of Springfield, Ohio. He then took a course of lectures, studied another year, then a second course of lectures, and in 1851 graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. He first located at Vienna Cross Roads, Clark County, Ohio, and after a few years engaged in the practice of his profession with Dr. Burkley Gillett, of Springfield. The latter died a year later, and our subject then went to Plattsburg, and subsequently to Vienna Cross Roads once more. In 1871, he came to London, where he has since resided, and been engaged in attending to a very fair practice. In June, 1862, Dr. Sprague went into the United States service, as Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving in that position nearly three years. By his own consent, he was detailed as surgeon of a colored regiment. They were located on the banks of a stream in the South, and soon after the measles and small-pox broke out among them. Dr. Sprague vaccinated over four hundred of them, and never lost a main by either disease, although some of the men had both diseases at the same time. He remained with them two or three months and then returned home. Dr. Sprague was formerly and is now a member of the Clark County Medical Society, and is also connected with the State and Madison Societies of a like nature. He is thoroughly Democratic in his political views, and once, while a resident of Clark County, served as Justice of the Peace. He was married, November 8, 1843, to Sarah, daughter of Isaac Chamberlain, an old and respected pioneer of Clark County. Of the six children born to Dr. and Mrs. Sprague, only two are living -- Cecelia F. (wife of William H. Wragg, of Plattsburg, Clark County, Ohio), and Milton C. (a graduate of the Cincinnati Medical College, and a practicing physician of Somerford, this county). Dr. Sprague has been a member of the Masonic order since about 1845, having been initiated at Fielding Lodge, South Charleston, Ohio. He is now a member of the Lodge, Chapter and Council at London, and of Mt. Vernon Commandery at Columbus. He has taken the first eighteen and the Scottish Rite degrees, and will soon advance, if his life is spared to the thirty-second degree. His connection with the I.OO.F. has been equally as long and honorable.
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