Dr. John Hynds, a physician and surgeon practicing in Buffalo, was born in Norborne, Carroll county, Missouri, May 14, 1880, a son of Dr. .A. J. Hynds, who is a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago of the class of 1871 and now engaged in active practice in Kansas City, Missouri.
    The son, Dr. John Hynds of this review, was educated in the Norborne high school and was graduated with the class of 1897 from Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri. He registered as a pharmacist in October, 1900, and spent nine years in the drug business. During that period, in 1904, he entered the University Medical College at Kansas City, Missouri, in which he prepared for the practice of medicine and surgery, winning the M. D. degree as a member of the class of 1908. He afterward spent a year as interne in the Kansas City General Hospital and six months as assistant house surgeon and also six months on the police ambulance. This broad and varied experience was of the greatest value to him, gaining him knowledge and training that could never be obtained as quickly in any other way. In 1909 he came to Sheridan, Wyoming, and was house surgeon in the Wyoming General Hospital until 1911, when he resigned and went to Chicago, Illinois, for the Burlington Railroad Company. There he was associated with the medical and surgical department of the corporation for a time, but afterward returned to Sheridan and engaged in general practice. In February, 1917, he removed to Buffalo, where he has since been located, and although he has been a resident of the city for little more than a year, he has already won for himself a very substantial practice and has gained recognition among his colleagues and contemporaries as an able member of the profession.
    In March, 1913, Dr. Hynds was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Callender, of Galesburg, Illinois, and to them have been born two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Dorothy Alice.
    Dr. Hynds is of the Presbyterian faith, while Mrs. Hynds is a member of the Episcopal church. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, having membership in Sheridan Lodge, A. F. & A. M.‡; Orient Chapter, No. 102, R. A. M.,† of Kansas City, Missouri; De Molay Commandery, K. T.; and Kalif Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.* He is likewise a member of Galesburg (Ill.) Lodge, No. 894, B. P. O. E. Along strictly professional lines he has connection with the Sheridan County Medical Society and the Wyoming State Medical Society and through the proceedings of these organizations keeps in close touch with the trend of modern professional thought and investigation, while his native powers and talents have placed him in an enviable position in the ranks of the medical profession in Johnson county.