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Dr. John Charles Lynch, a prominent physician of Bridgeport who is specializing in neurology, was born in the town of Trumbull, Fairfield county, Connecticut, February 6, 1865, being the only son of Owen and Bridget Read Lynch, both of whom are now deceased. The father was born in Ireland.

Dr. Lynch spent his boyhood to the age of twelve years in Trumbull and then entered the Emory Strong Commercial and Military Institute at Bridgeport, in which he spent four years. When a youth of seventeen he became a student in the New York College of Dentistry and won the D. D, S. degree upon graduation with the class of 1884. He afterward practiced dentistry in New York city for about eighteen months and at the same time pursued the study of medicine in the New York University, which conferred upon him his M. D. degree at his graduation with the class of 1886. It was his work as a member of the dental profession that brought him the money with which to meet the expenses of his medical course. Following his graduation he opened an office in Newtown, Connecticut, but in the fall of the same year he removed to Bridgeport, although, owing to ill health, he did not at once begin practice. From April until November, 1887, he followed his profession in New Canaan, Connecticut, and the following year returned to Bridgeport, where he has since actively engaged in the practice of medicine, winning a well-deserved reputation that establishes him as one of the most prominent physicians' of the city. He has made a specialty of the treatment of mental and nervous diseases and in that connection has won a reputation that has made him widely known far beyond the borders of his state. In fact his opinions as a diagnostician and a neurologist are widely accepted as authority and for many years he has been adjunct professor of neurology in the New York Post Graduate School and visits the city twice each week to deliver lectures in that institution. Previous to his connection with the Post Graduate School he was adjunct professor in the New York Polyclinic. He has himself taken post graduate work in the New York Post Graduate School, the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore and in the Harvard Medical College and has further supplemented his knowledge by study in many of the largest cities of Europe, including London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, where he has come under the instruction of some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the old world. He has gone abroad twelve times in the pursuit of knowledge and of pleasure. For twenty years he has served on the staff of the Bridgeport Hospital and is now in charge of the department of neurology.

On the 18th of April, 1895, Dr. Lynch was united in marriage to Miss Sadia Esther Walls, who was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, a daughter of Henry Jerome and Mary Caulwell (Mclntyre) Walls, who were also natives of the old Bay state and have now passed away. In his student days Dr. Lynch had as one of his early medical preceptors the late Dr. Robert Hubbard of Bridgeport, who was one of the most beloved physicians of this city, and in honor of this early preceptor and friend Dr. Lynch and his wife named their elder son Hubbard. He was born January 21, 1898, and is now a junior at Yale. The younger son, John Charles, born December 10, 1901, is attending the Bridgeport schools.

Dr. Lynch has attained high rank in Masonry, reaching the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has membership with the Bridgeport, the Fairfield County and the Connecticut State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, and in these organizations his opinions along the line of his specialty are listened to with great interest and careful consideration is given thereto, for he is an acknowledged authority upon mental and nervous diseases.