SPROUL, HEBER (1867-1951)

SPROUL, HEBER, dentist, b. Sussex, N.B., 18 Aug 1867, s/o John Henry Sproul and Frances Cripps; brother of George Jasper Sproul; m. 1894, Mary Elizabeth Miller, sister of Stanley Wallace Miller; d. Newcastle, 8 Apr 1951.

Immediately after graduating from the Baltimore Medical College (DDS 1890) Heber Sproul moved to Newcastle and began to practice dentistry. For many years he was a business associate of his older brother, Dr G. Jasper Sproul of Chatham, in G. J. & H. Sproul, surgeon dentists. He later practiced on his own.

Sproul sat for a time on the Newcastle School Board and was active in the Masonic order. In 1910 he had the contractor James T. Forrest build a stone house for his family which became a landmark in Newcastle. He and his wife, M. Elizabeth Miller, who died in 1923, raised four sons and two daughters. Their son Hudson H. Sproul was an osteopathic physician who practiced mostly in England. Their son John E. Sproul was a dentist in Newcastle. Their daughters Damie F. A. Sproul and Reba L. E. Sproul were nurses.