William S. Sadler

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William S Sadler
Born	1875
Died	1969
Nationality	American
Occupation	Psychiatrist
Spouse	Lena Sadler, MD

William S. Sadler, MD, FAPA (1875 - 1969) was a well-known American psychiatrist^[1] and professor at McCormick Theological Seminary. For over sixty years he practiced medicine in Chicago, thirty-three years being associated in practice with his wife, Lena Sadler, MD.

[edit] Education

The Sadlers married in 1897 and pursued their medical degrees together at the American Medical Missionary College (University of Illinois) where they equally graduated with honors in 1906. They founded the Chicago Institute of Physiologic Therapeutics (later called the Chicago Institute of Research & Diagnosis).

[edit] Professional background

Dr Sadler was a professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital, and for over twenty-five years, a professor and chairman of the department of pastoral psychology at McCormick Theological Seminary. He held memberships in the following associations: Life Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Medical Association; Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; Member, American Psychopathological Association; Member Illinois Psychiatric Association; Member; Chicago Society for Personality Study; Member, Chicago Medical Society; Member, Illinois State Medical Society; Board member, W. K. Kellogg Foundation; National Association of Authors and Journalists; founder member and governing board, Gorgas Memorial Institute in Tropical and Preventive Medicine. He was a professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, director of the Chicago Institute of Research and Diagnosis, consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital, and for thirty years, a lecturer in Pastoral Counseling at McCormick Theological Seminary. As a pioneer he interested ministers in improving their work of personal counseling through profiting by the experience of psychiatric practice.

Dr Sadler was a humorous orator and was a member of the Eugene Field Society, the National Association of Authors and Journalists, and International Mark Twain Society. He was a fantastic story teller and could take the roof off a building with laughter when he got going. As was common practice for those associated with the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the Sadlers were speakers for the Chautauqua assemblies, introducing the modern concepts of mental medicine and physical hygiene for the prevention of disease. For many years, at the Chicago Institute, William Sadler taught clinics for physicians, ministers, and laity that covered the entire field of mental medicine that he liked to term "personology." Writing more than a 42 books and numerous magazine articles, he authored such works as: Theory and Practice of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Nursing, The Mind at Mischief, Growing Out of Babyhood, Piloting Modern Youth, and The Quest for Happiness.

Sadler did not adhere to purely mechanistic or materialistic views of psychology and psychiatry and was a consistent advocate of broad and rational principles of psychiatry; he was among early American psychiatrists who placed an emphasis upon the importance of the preventive aspects of mental hygiene.^[2]

[edit] Family

The Sadlers' first son, Willis, was born in 1899 but died as an infant. Their second son, William Samuel Sadler Jr., was born in 1907. In 1923, Emma L. Christensen, 33 years of age, was accepted as a member of the Sadler family.

[edit] History

William Sadler was born in Spencer, Indiana, son of Samuel Calvins Sadler and Dr Sarah Isabel Wilson, MD on June 24, 1875. Upon moving to Battle Creek Michigan, he was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. At age 14, he worked as a bellboy and later a salesman for the Battle Creek Sanitarium. In 1895 he began to instruct Christian doctrine, preach the gospel, and serve as an administrator for the San Francisco and Chicago Medical Mission and Benevolent Societies. In addition he was an editor, author, and founder of Life Boat Magazine. In 1897 Sadler married Lena Kellogg. By 1989, the Chicago Medical Mission had grown to comprise of eight institutions and twenty-five distinct lines of mission and rescue work. William became an ordained minister and he and Dr Lena worked for twenty years in rescue ministry. The Sadlers went into private practice when the institutions of the Chicago Medical Missions began to dissolve caused by internal conflicts between the founder of the mission, John Harvey Kellogg and the Seventh-day Adventist church. For the rest of their lives the Sadlers were associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.

He was a pioneer in lecturing and writing about the preventative aspects of physical and mental hygiene. He brought the latest discoveries to the layman, lecturing through the Lyceum Association to Chautauqua assemblies and through numerous magazine articles. To learned professionals he wrote forty-two books, contributed to journals, and lectured at two universities. "He taught clinics for physicians, ministers, and laity alike that covered the entire field of mental medicine that he liked to term 'personology.'" He was a cheerful man. "Patients suffering from depression would come into his office with their chins on their chests. After listening to his inspirational exhortation for an hour they left his office walking on air. Dr Sadler would amble out of his office with a twinkle in his eye and a pleasant expression on his cherubic face."

[edit] Debunker

Sadler was a well-known skeptic of psychic phenomena and devoted a substantial amount of his time to exposing the proponents of the paranormal as frauds and charlatans and writing numerous books on the topic. He worked with magician Howard Thurston in exposing frauds and mediums. He was considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject and held the life-long opinion that all psychic phenomena was explainable within the confines of the laws of nature.

[edit] Death

Dr. William S. Sadler died on April 26, 1969, at 93 years of age.

[edit] The Urantia Book

In 1923 a group of interested persons said that the contents of The Urantia Book materialized^[3] from 1924 until 1936. Sadler wrote a paper detailing the types of methods that he said were not used in the reception of the papers.^[4] "How We Did Not Get The Urantia Book" and Psychic Phenomena: Unusual Activities of the Marginal Consciousness (The Subconscious Mind).^[5]

William S Sadler was a participant among another 486 interested persons. He was not the founder of The Urantia Book movement, he just lived longer than most becoming an elder statesman.

He and his wife were an exemplary team, both medical doctors, who worked side by side as partners in business as well as spiritual pursuits. He did not serve as a trustee of the Urantia Foundation ^[6] formed in 1950, and was never an officer of the Urantia Brotherhood. He was Chair of the Committee on Education and worked after the book's publication to produce, with his committee, curriculum materials for the Urantia Brotherhood School. The titles were, Urantia Doctrine and the Theology of the Urantia Book, Urantia Book Quotations from the Teachings, Sayings, Miracles, and Parables of Jesus, Worship and Wisdom, Gems from the Urantia Book, History of the Urantia Movement, Study of the Books of the Bible, The History of the Bible, A Short Course in Doctrine, Analytical Study of the Urantia Book, Science in the Urantia Book, and Topical Studies in the Urantia Book.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Carnegie, Dale: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living p 195, Simon and Schuster, 1948, New York.
2. ^ The Evolution of the Soul, Lecture on the William F Ayers Foundation at Plymouth Congregational Church, Lansing Michigan, 18 November 1941.
3. ^ http://www.urantiabook.org/mullinshistory/sprunger_affidavit.htm
4. ^ http://www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/histumov.htm#appendix1 Appendix I
5. ^ http://www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/histumov.htm#appendix2 Appendix II
6. ^ Welcome to the Official Urantia Foundation Website

[edit] References

• Carnegie, Dale: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, p.195, Simon and Schuster, 1948, New York.
• "Dr. William S. Sadler: A Self-made Renaissance Man", published in Pervaded Space (a Chicago Area Newsletter), Spring, 1979
• Sprunger, Meredith. A Short Biographical Sketch of Dr. William S. Sadler.
• G. Vonne Meussling, "William S. Sadler: Chautauqua's Medic Orator" (Excerpt from A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, December 1970)
• Kendall, Carolyn, Dr. William S. Sadler: Skeptic, Believer, Inspiration, talk presented December 9, 2006. Secretary for Dr William S Sadler before 1954.
• Agnes Geneva Gilman, A.B and Gertrude Marcella Gilman, A.M, Who's Who in Illinois Women-Makers of History, Eclectic Publishers, Chicago 1927
• Letter from William S Sadler to William White, March 1904, Battle Creek Michigan* Seventh Day
• Letter from William S Sadler to William White, November 1905 La Grange IL.Adventists Church, Office of Archives & Statistics, Life Boat Magazine 1898 to 1914.
• "New, Old Leaders Named to Head South Side P, T's", pg SC2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago IL, 9 Apr 1933
• "Illinois Federation Adopts building for the Future as Keynote of Year's Program", pg G3, Chicago Tribune, Chicago IL, 09 Oct 1932
• "Dr. Lena Sadler to talk", pg 15 Chicago Tribune, Chicago IL 6 Aug 1935
• "Accept Berets, Is Advice of Fashion Expert", pg 17 Chicago Tribune,19 Jul 1934
• "Dr. Lena Sadler Dies, Practiced in City 30 years", pg 14 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago IL, 09 Aug 1939
• "Open Fight on Midwives", Chicago Daily Tribune, November 11, 1911, pg 3
• McLaughlin, Kathleen "Woman's Club Annals Reveal Service to City", pg 5 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago IL, 22 Jan 1928
• "Progress Notes", pg 6 Chicago Tribune Chicago IL, 18 Jun 1933
• Van Hoosen, Bertha, Petticoat Surgeon,, Arno Press, New York 1947
• " News of Chicago Clubs and the Society World", pg 17 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago IL, 08 Dec 1913
• Life Boat Magazine, Hinsdale Workingmen's Home and Life Boat Mission Inc, Hinsdale, IL, 1898 Vol I No 01, 1899 Vol 1 No 02, Vol 2 No 10, 1900 Vol 3 No 7, 1901 Vol 4 No 01, 1904 Vol 7 No 12, 1905 Vol 8 No 02 & No 06, 1906 Vol 9 No 08, 1909 Vol 12 No 04, No 09, & No 11.
• Kellogg MD, Dr Merritt G; Notes Concerning the Kellogg’s; Battle Creek Michigan: ©1927
• International Lyceum Association, Lyceum News, "Message For the Masses", September p 33 ©1910
• Sadler MD, Dr William S; "The Evolution of the Soul", Lecture at the William F Ayers Foundation at Plymouth Congregational Church, Lansing Michigan: ©1941.
• Sprunger, Meredith, "A Short Biographical Sketch of Dr. William S. Sadler" ©1958
• United States Federal Census 1860; Van Buren, Monroe, Indiana; Roll: M653_282; Page: 597; Image: 160
• Malcolm Bull; Keth Lockhart, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-Day Adventism and the American Dream, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989
• United States Federal Census 1880; Spencer, Owen, Indiana; Roll: T9_303; Family History Film: 1254303; Page: 310.4000; Enumeration District: 253; Image: 0104.
• United States Federal Census 1900; Topeka Ward 4, Shawnee, Kansas; Roll: T623 500; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 158.
• United States Federal Census 1910; Seattle Ward 7, King, Washington; Roll: T624_1660; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 138; Image: 1088.
• United States Federal Census 1910; Lyons, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T624_238; Page: 25B; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 855.
• United States Federal Census 1920; Chicago Ward 23, Cook (Chicago), Illinois; Roll: T625_334; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 1309; Image: 878.
• United States Federal Census 1920; Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1927; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 175; Image: 986.
• Year: 1930; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: 486; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 1645; Image: 387.0.
• United States Federal Census 1930; Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: 2505; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 223; Image: 359.0.
• Washington Death Index, 1940-1996: Washington State Department of Health. Certificate 2952.
• Cook County, Illinois; Roll: 1613570; Draft Board: 50. 1917-1918
• New York Passenger List, 1820-1957, Year: 11 Dec Lusitania, Departure Liverpool, Arrival New York. 1911; Microfilm serial: T715; Microfilm roll: T715_1785; Line: 1;
• New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, 1928; Microfilm serial: T715; Microfilm roll: T715_4347; Line: 24; departure Cherbourgh, France, 13 Sept 1928; arrival New York 22 Sep 1928. William, Lena, Bill Jr, Emma Christensen.