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George F. Hynes, M. D., physician and surgeon at Fort Smith, was born in Brockville, Canada, in 1848, and is the son of William M. Hynes, a native of Dublin, Ireland, born in 1792; he was educated in England, but returned to Ireland, and emigrated from there to America, and located in New York State, before he had attained his majority. He commenced life as a teacher, and followed this occupation in that State for several years. He moved to Canada about 1827, locating at Brockville, where he followed educational pursuits for over forty years. In 1855 he went to Montreal, and was there connected with Lower Canada College as professor of mathematics for one year, after which he returned to Western Canada, and became interested in the publication of a newspaper, Prescott Messenger, filling the office, in the meantime, of superintendent of county schools. Before his death he abandoned teaching. He was a stanch Protestant member of the Presbyterian Church, and was a strictly temperate man in all his habits. He died in 1866, at the age of seventy-four years. He was married twice, first to Miss Margaret Burrell, who died in Canada, leaving six children. Mr. Hynes was afterward married to Miss Mary Burrell, a sister of his first wife, and to them were born ten children. Margaret and Mary Burrell’s father, William Russell, was a prosperous farmer of New York State, and was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Late in life Mr. Hynes and wife went to Ohio, to live with their youngest daughter, and here passed the remainder of their days. His great-grandfather, whose name was Morgan, was in the Revolutionary War, and fought on the British side. Dr. George F. Hynes graduated from Cleveland College in 1879. After practicing in Cleveland for a year, he came South, and located in Van Buren, Crawford Co., Ark., where he remained until March, 1888. While in that county he was associated with Dr. Dibrell. Dr. Hynes came to Fort Smith in March of 1888. He is a member of the Sebastian Medical Association, and although only a short time in the State he was made chairman of Arkansas State Medical Society for 1888. While in Van Buren County he was surgeon for the railroad and for the K. of P. He was married to Miss Sue Dibrell, daughter of J. A. Dibrell, Sr., and two children were the result of this union: Dibrell Pryor and Mary Russell. Dr. Hynes is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a prominent practitioner.