Edward C. Heyl, president of the Heyl & Lynch Drug Company, Incorporated, at New Haven, has conducted business under this style since 1915. While it is one of the more recently established commercial interests of the city it has shown a marked growth indicative of the fact that the owners employ the most progressive business methods in the conduct of their interests. Mr. Heyl has been a lifelong resident of New Haven, where his birth occurred on the 27th of July, 1891. His father, Philip Heyl, is a native of New York and of German descent. He became a wood carver and devoted many years of his life to that vocation, but is now living retired. He married Nannie Marx, a native of New Haven and a daughter of Jacob Marx, who was also of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heyl have become parents of two children, the brother of Edward C. being Frederick Heyl, who was graduated from Yale with the Ph. G. degree in 1904 and is now a chemist at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
     In his youthful days Edward C. Heyl attended the Hopkins grammar school at New Haven and on attaining his majority started out in the business world to learn pharmacy. The thoroughness with which he mastered his studies is manifest in the success which has attended his efforts since he established his present business in 1915, forming a partnership with William F. Lynch, under the style of the Heyl & Lynch Drug Company, Incorporated. They established their store at No. 420 Congress street, and from a modest beginning have developed a business that in the comparatively brief period of two years has shown such a marked growth that theirs is today one of the leading drug stores of New Haven.
     Mr. Heyl maintains an independent course politically, while fraternally he is both a Mason and an Elk. In the former organization he has taken the degrees of lodge, chapter and council. He is fast becoming well established as a prominent young business man of his native city, and, moreover, is popular with a large circle of friends. There has been nothing spectacular in his record, which is that of persistent energy intelligently applied in the attainment of honorable success.