1883 History of Kansas
SAMUEL M. PRATT, physician and surgeon, of the homopathic school, was formerly from Vermont, born in Washington County, December 2, 1835. He is the son of Asaph and Hermione Pratt, both of the old Puritan stock. His mother's family name was Clark. They removed to Bureau County, Ill., in 1845, and here the subject of this sketch spent his youth, attending school and clerking in his father's store. His parents are still residents ther
In 1861 Dr. Pratt graduated from the Homopathic Medical College of Missouri, and one year later was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the great Rebellion, by Gov. Yates. He was assigned to duty in the Mound City Hospital of Illinois, where he served until the latter part of 1863. Returning to Bureau County, in the same State, he resumed his regular practice there until the spring of 1871, when he came to Hiawatha, Kan., and has since followed his profession there. He was the first physician of that school in the county. Dr. Pratt is identified with the Homopathic State Medical Society of Kansas and the Western Institute of Homopathy. He is also connected with the following organizations: Hiawatha Lodge, No. 35, A., F. & A. M.; Mount Horeb Chapter, No. 43, R. A. M.; Hiawatha Commandery, No. 13, K. T.; Star of Hope Lodge, No. 1338, K. of H. and K. & L. of H., being an instigator of the two latter.
His wife's maiden name was Lizzie M. Martin, to whom he was married in Illinois, in 1864. They have one daughter, Myrtle.