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J.
P. Sproull, M. D.
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biography
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J. P. SPROULL, M. D., practicing at Grove City, stands high in the medical fraternity of Pennsylvania. He was born January 6, 1848, near the beautiful city of Sunbury, Butler county, Pennsylvania, a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Smith) Sproull. His father was born in 1824, in Pennsylvania, and now resides on the farm where Dr. Sproull first saw the light of day. There the elder Sproull followed agricultural pursuits and today is about eighty-four years of age, still a strong, hearty man, whose ancestors were from Ireland.
Dr. Sproull grew to manhood on the home farm and was graduated from the excellent academy at Sunbury. He taught school for seven years, then choosing the medical profession, in 1877 he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Cleveland, Ohio. He then located in practice at Plain Grove, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, where for thirty years he was daily in active practice. He did a large country practice, which was quite a hardship, and having achieved success from both a professional and financial standpoint, he decided to change locations, seeking a field of less arduous nature. Consequently, in the month of January, 1907, he located in Grove City, where he has already gained a satisfactory medical practice.
The doctor is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society and the Pennsylvania State Medical Society. While yet a resident of Lawrence county, he was a member of the Medical Society of that county for many years. He has, by lectures and constant reading of the current medical publications, kept pace with the rapid development in the science of medicine. Believing, as he does, that neither of the old political parties will ever bring about, of themselves, the desired legislation in the matter of prohibition of intoxicating liquors, he is a supporter of the Prohibition party. He is a faithful member of the United Presbyterian church, of which body he has been an elder for twenty-eight years. In 1867 the doctor married
Miss Jennie L. Wasson, of Butler county, Pennsylvania.
Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, page 488
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