Dr. Joseph Vincent Esposito is an active physician and surgeon of New Haven, who while continuing in general practice specializes to a large extent in obstetrics. His thorough preparatory training and his hospital experience well qualified him for the onerous and important duties that now devolve upon him. New Haven claims him as a native son, for his birth here occurred May 6, 1889, his parents being Catello and Rosina (Costanzo) Esposito, both of whom were natives of Italy. The father was born at Castellamare, in the province of Naples, and came to America in 1878, making his way direct to New Haven, where he followed various lines of business. During the last thirty-six years of his life he was connected with the firm of Sargent & Company as a belt maker, and he passed away in 1914, in New Haven, at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife, also a native of the province of Naples, Italy, came to the United States as an orphan, in 1880, with an elder brother, Lewis Costanzo, who also settled in New Haven. It was in August of that year that she was married to Catello Esposito, and their marriage was one of the first celebrated among the Italian people of New Haven. She is still living at the age of fifty-two years.

     Dr. Esposito was the third in a family of five children. He was educated in the schools of New Haven, passing through consecutive grades to the high school, and in 1907 he entered Yale, where he spent six months. On account of finances he had to abandon his studies and the following year he became a student in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1912 with the M. D. degree. He then had the benefit of broad hospital training and experience. He was an intern in the St. Louis (Mo.) City Hospital, where he spent one year. He then went to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was an interne and resident physician in the Atlantic City Hospital for a year. On the expiration of that period he came to New Haven and entered upon private practice, in which he still continues. While he is engaged in general practice, he specializes to a large extent in surgical obstetrics and is thoroughly qualified and competent in that particular. He has directed his studies and reading largely along that line and has attained a degree of efficiency which makes his work in that field notably successful.

     On the 8th of January, 1914, Dr. Esposito was married to Miss Violet Morse Bunnell, a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and of English descent, her parents being Arthur M. and Cherry (Morse) Bunnell, both of whom are still residents of Ottawa. The Doctor and his wife have one son, Othello, born October 11, 1914. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Esposito was a graduate nurse in the Atlantic City Hospital, where she filled the position of head surgical nurse. Dr. Esposito belongs to the New Haven, the New Haven County, the Connecticut State and the American Medical Associations and is assistant surgeon of the New Haven Dispensary. He keeps in close touch with the onward trend of professional thought, investigation and experience, thus continually broadening his knowledge and promoting his efficiency.

     In politics Dr. Esposito is a republican but has never been an office seeker. He is an honorary member of the Republican Italian Club. He also belongs to the Dante Alighieri Society, the San Carlino Club and to the Sons of Italy, while his religious faith is evidenced in his membership in St. Michael’s Roman Catholic church. He holds to high professional ideals, is conscientious in the performance of all of his professional work and by reason of his laudable ambition and untiring industry has made steady advance, occupying an enviable place among the physicians and surgeons of New Haven.