Bio: Sauerhering, Douglas L. M. D. (1861 - 19??)

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Surnames: Sauerhering, Senn, Laurisch

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Sauerhering, Douglas L. M. D. (1 May 1861 - 19??)

Douglas L. Sauerhering, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons in active practice at Wausau, has been a resident of this city since the fall of 1886. He was born May 1, 1861, in Dodge County, Wis., a son of Dr. Adolph Sauerhering.

After graduating from the local High School, Douglas L. Sauerhering, in 1883 entered the office of the late Dr. Nicholas Senn the noted American surgeon, to begin the study of medicine and in 1884 became a student in the Northwestern University where he was graduated in the class of 1886. In November of the same year he located at Wausau and this city has continued his home and numbers him with her most prominent professional men. In 1889 he took a post graduate course in New York City and in 1892 a similar course in the University of Berlin, Germany. From 1892 until 1907 he conducted the Riverside Hospital. Dr. .Sauerhering has been a very useful citizen. For eight years he served as health commissioner of the city of Wausau and the present city water supply was discovered through his investigations. He was one of the first health officers in Wisconsin to institute municipal administration of antitoxin and one of the first officers in the state to begin the use of disinfectants in houses where cases of tuberculosis had been discovered. It was during his administration that the law was put in effect calling for the disinfection of all public school houses during the vacation periods. He is one of the pioneer practitioners in the county, his recollections going back to the days when neither railroads nor adequate public highways afforded means of transportation. He has been a lifelong Democrat, but, outside of professional offices, has never accepted any position.

Dr. Sauerhering married Miss Magdalina Laurisch, of Danville, Minn. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America.