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IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
T. F. H. SPRENG
The name of Dr. Theodore F. H. Spreng has long been a household word to the
people of Sioux City, where for nearly forty years he has held a foremost
place in the ranks of the medical profession. Proper intellectual discipline,
thorough professional training and a love for his profession, as well as
profound human sympathy, have contributed to the success which has crowned his life work and for many years he has stood among the able and scholarly physicians in a community long distinguished for the high order of its medical talent.
Dr. Spreng was born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 20, 1853, and is a son of
Rev. George F. and Christina (Bentz) Spreng, the former a native of
Alsace-Lorraine, then a part of Germany, while the latter was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, their marriage occurring in Ohio. The father was a minister of the Evangelical Association and was for forty years presiding elder of the general conference and at different times a delegate to the national conference of that association. He was active in church work for more than sixty years and died in 1905, at the age of eighty-two years. His wife passed away exactly one year previous to his death, at the age of eighty-one years. They reared thirteen children, of which number four sons and four daughters still survive.
Having attended the public schools of Cleveland, and Northwestern College,
at Naperville, Illinois, Dr. Spreng then matriculated in Hahnemann Medical
College of Chicago, where he was graduated in 1879, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He spent the following year as interne in the Hahnemann Hospital, and then began the practice of his profession in Chicago, where he remained five years, when he removed to Buchanan, Michigan, where he practiced five years. In 1889 he came to Sioux City, where he has been actively engaged in practice to the present, and during all of the years of his identification with this community there has never been a time when there was not distinct recognition of his ability and skill as a physician, while at the same time he has been uniformly regarded as a valued citizen, of lofty character, sturdy
integrity and fine public spirit, the record of these years being one of tireless and unselfish devotion not only to his professional work but also to the general welfare. A man of rugged strength of character, of finest moral fiber,
he has by his life honored the community in which he lives.
In 1887 Dr. Spreng was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Pears, of Buchanan,
Michigan, and they are the parents of a son, Theodore Pears Spreng, who now
lives in Houston, Texas. The Doctor is a member of the Sioux City
Homeopathic Medical Society, the Hahnemann Medical Society of Iowa, of which he was president in 1908, the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Professional Men's Club of Sioux City and the Sioux City Boat Club. Fraternally, he is a member of Buchanan (Mich.) Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Columbian Commandery, No. 18, K. T., of Sioux City; and Abu-Bekr Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He and his wife are
earnest members of the Congregational church. The Doctor is a close and critical reader, possessing a fine library of classical and current literature, while his collection of professional and scientific works is broad and
comprehensive in its scope. Unassuming in manner, he nevertheless possesses a forceful personality that impresses all who come in contact with him. His
cheerfulness, his kindly humor, his utter freedom from every form of affectation have endeared him personally to a large circle of devoted patients and loyal friends and his professional colleagues speak of him in the highest terms.
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