l)r. Joseph I. Linde, one of New Haven's representative professional men, now serving as city physician, was born April 1, 1886, in New Haven, a son of George and Mary (Bertzfelder) Linde. The mother was a native of the state of Connecticut. The father came to America with his parents when six years of age, the family home being established in New Haven, where he was reared and educated. He started out in the business world and chose a professional career. He took up the study of pharmacy and later engaged in the drug business on his own account, continuing active in that field until his death, which occurred in 1906, having long occupied a prominent position as one of the leading druggists of the city. He was forty-nine years of age at the time of his death. His widow was reared, educated and married in New Haven and is still a resident of this city.
     Joseph I. Linde, their only child, attended the public schools of New Haven and afterward became a pupil in the Hillhouse high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1904. In preparation for a professional career he entered the Yale Medical School and completed his course by graduation with the class of 1908, at which time the M. D. degree was conferred upon him. He has since benefited by post graduate work in the Harvard Medical School in the summer of 1911. In 1910 he located for practice in New Haven and it was not long before he had established a high reputation lor skill and efficiency and through the intervening years to the present time he has built up an extensive practice and ranks very high in professional circles. He finds a ready solution for difficult and complex prefessional problems and he is deeply interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the mystery which we call life. He therefore studies broadly, thinks deeply and keeps in touch with the trend of scientific investigation and modern research. He belongs to the New Haven, New Haven County and Connecticut State Medical Societies and to the American Association, and also to the New England Pediatric Society. He has filled the office of city physician since February, 1910, and his long incumbency in the position, covering a period of more than seven years, is indicative of the confidence reposed in him and of the splendid work which he has done in this connection.
     Dr. Linde was united in marriage on the 7th of June, 1913. to Miss Stella A. Mann, of Baltimore, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Mann, of that city. Fraternally he is connected with Hiram Lodge of Masons and in club circles is well known as a member of the Race Brook Country Club and of the Harmonie Club. Dr. Linde is appreciative of the social amenities of life, is possessed of a genial nature, is ever courteous and kindly in disposition and has won an extensive circle of warm friends, while his professional precedence is acknowledged by colleagues and contemporaries.