Supplementing thorough training at Yale by broad hospital experience. Dr. William Charles McGuire has developed a degree of efficiency that ranks him among the most capable of the younger members of the medical profession in New Haven. He was born March 6, 1887, a son of James Charles and Winifred (McNamara) McGuire, both of whom were also natives of New Haven. Their parents, however, came from Ireland. Both were reared and educated in New Haven and the father became connected with the railway mail service on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. He is now in the postal service as superintendent of the general delivery window in the New Haven office. To him and his wife were born two children: Mrs. Jane McCormick, of West Haven; and William Charles.

The last named attended the public schools of New Haven and then entered the Hillhouse high school, from which he was graduated in 1906. Having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he then entered the Yale Medical College and was graduated with the class of 1909. He began active practice as an interne in St. Vincent's Hospital of New York city, with which he was connected for two years. He next entered the New York Family Hospital, where he remained for two years and for a similar period he was in St. John's Guild Hospital, after which he returned to New Haven and opened an office for the private practice of medicine. Through his efficiency, which has developed with the passing years, he has built up a large and lucrative practice and is now at the head of a profitable and growing business. He belongs to the New Haven, the New Haven County and the Connecticut State Medical Societies, and the American Medical Association and thus keeps informed concerning the most advanced methods of the medical profession and all of the scientific researches and discoveries.

In politics Dr. McGuire maintains an independent course, considering the questions and issues of the day as measures of public policy when ho casts his vote. He is identified with the Roman Catholic church and with the Knights of Columbus. His attention, however, is chiefly concentrated upon his professional interests, which are steadily growing in volume and in importance, and in addition to his large private practice he is acting as physician in the children's department, St. Raphael's Hospital. He has worked his way steadily upward in a calling where merit is the force which wins progress, and his steady advancement has brought him to a creditable position in the ranks of the profession in his native city.