Sacramento County
Biographies
DR. DAVID F. HERSPRING
DR.
DAVID F. HERSPRING.--A native son, Dr. Herspring was born in San
Francisco, January 8, 1872, the son of Adolph and Frances (Krant)
Herspring, both natives of New York State
and now deceased. The parents were
married in New York and came to California
by way of Panama
in 1852. The father was a prominent
potato merchant of San Francisco and Oakland
for many years. Eight children were born
to this pioneer couple, and four sons are now living: David F., Louis, Joseph, and Harry.
David
F. Herspring received his education in the Oakland
schools; and when ready for the business world, he learned the
candy-manufacturing business with Bruning Brothers,
of Oakland, then the leading
confectioners of that city. He then went
to Yolo County, and in Woodland engaged in the candy business for three years
under the firm name of Siebe & Herspring, at the
end of that period selling out his interest and making the journey to New York
City, where his change of occupation was as radical as his change of residence,
for he then became a member of the firm of O’Kane
& Stillings, wholesale manufacturers of harness
and turf goods. Later he accepted a
position at the Palisade Stock Farm of trotting horses in New
Jersey, acting as manager, trainer and driver of
their finest stock. He is also the
manufacturer of Herspring’s Salve, and Herspring’s Stomach and Rheumatism
Powders that are used throughout the United States
and Europe.
Dr.
Herspring attended the Detroit
Veterinary Dental
College, where he specialized in
veterinary dental surgery. On returning
to California, in 1907, he practiced his profession in Woodland,
Yolo County,
until 1918, during seven years of which time he was chief humane officer of the
county; and he also officiated as vice-president of the Humane Society of Yolo
County.
In
1918, Dr. Herspring came to Sacramento
and became manager of the Sutter Candy Company, the leading confectionery and
cafe of the city, his early training and thorough knowledge of the business
making him particularly adapted for managing the details of this line of
work. He is also a breeder of fine
horses, and ships a carload East each year to Chicago
for sale. He has bred and sold such
well-known harness horses as Don Rosine, Edna Brown, Dan
Logan, Bert Kelly, and others, all taken East and
sold; in all, the doctor has made thirteen round trips across the country with
his high-bred stock. He owns the
imported Belgian stallion, Mosel, which was exhibited
and took second prize at the Sacramento
state Fair in 1922. The breeding and
training of horses has always been his hobby, and his interest in this “sport
of kings” has broadened his life in many way, making
him cosmopolitan in character and outlook, with an ever widening circle of
friends, both in Sacramento and
other points where his interests touch.
Fraternally, he is a member of the Sacramento Lodge of Elks No. 6;
Sutter Fort Lodge, N. S. G. W., of Sacramento; Alpine Blue
Lodge of Masons, No. 77, of New Jersey; Sacramento
Chapter of the Eastern Star; and the Sciots of
Sacramento; and he is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member
of Ben Ali Shrine, of Sacramento.
Transcribed by Barbara Gaffney.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 480.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles,
CA. 1923.
© 2007 Barbara Gaffney.