Biography of George F Hynes, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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George F. Hynes, M. D., physician and surgeon at Fort Smith, was born in
Brockville, Canada, in 1848, and is  the son of William M. Hynes, a native of
Dublin, Ireland, born in 1792; he was educated in England, but  returned to
Ireland, and emigrated from there to America, and located in New York State,
before he had attained  his majority. He commenced life as a teacher, and
followed this occupation in that State for several years. He  moved to Canada
about 1827, locating at Brockville, where he followed educational pursuits for
over forty  years. In 1855 he went to Montreal, and was there connected with
Lower Canada College as professor of  mathematics for one year, after which he
returned to Western Canada, and became interested in the publication  of a
newspaper, Prescott Messenger, filling the office, in the meantime, of
superintendent of county schools.  Before his death he abandoned teaching. He
was a stanch Protestant member of the Presbyterian Church, and  was a strictly
temperate man in all his habits. He died in 1866, at the age of seventy-four
years. He was married  twice, first to Miss Margaret Burrell, who died in
Canada, leaving six children. Mr. Hynes was afterward married to Miss Mary
Burrell, a sister of his first wife, and to them were born ten children.
Margaret and Mary  Burrell's father, William Russell, was a prosperous farmer
of New York State, and was an elder in the  Presbyterian Church. Late in life
Mr. Hynes and wife went to Ohio, to live with their youngest daughter, and
here passed the remainder of their days. His great-grandfather, whose name was
Morgan, was in the Revolutionary War, and fought on the British side. Dr.
George F. Hynes graduated from Cleveland College in  1879. After practicing in
Cleveland for a year he came South, and located in Van Buren, Crawford Co.,
Ark.,  where he remained until March, 1888. While in that county he was
associated with Dr. Dibrell, Dr. Hynes came  to Fort Smith in March of 1888. He
is a member of the Sebastian Medical Association, and although only a  short
time in the State he was made chairman of Arkansas State Medical Society for
1888. While in Van Buren  County he was surgeon for the railroad and for the K.
of P. He was married to Miss Sue Dibrell, daughter of J.  A. Dibrell, Sr., and
two children were the result of this union: Dibrell Pryor and Mary Russell. Dr.
Hynes is a  member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a prominent practitioner.