LINSLEY, JOHN STEPHEN – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

INSLEY, JOHN S., M. D., of New York, was born in Northfield, Conn., January 19th, 1838. Ills father is a farmer, and the
son was reared to agricultural pursuits, in which his youth was spent. I le received his early education at the public school. In 1855, he entered the
State Normal School, and graduated in 1859. He became, immediately upon the completion of his own education, engaged in teaching in the public schools
in Connecticut. This vocation he followed until 1861, when he entered the office of Dr. Sanford, of Bridgeport, as a student, having been convinced of
the efficacy and beauty of homœopathy, the effects of which treatment he experienced in an attack of typhoid fever. In 1862, however, he entered the
14th Regiment of United States Infantry as private ; but he received the appointment of Hospital Steward United States Army, which served to keep
alive his taste for the medical profession. Being on duty in New York in 1864, he matriculated in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and in 1866,
graduated at the New York Homœopathic Medical College. He entered immediately into the practice, and was appointed House Physician of the New York
Homœopathic Dispensary. This position he held until 1872. During six years he treated more than twenty-five thousand dispensary patients, in addition
to attending to the duties of a rapidly increasing private practice.

     In October, 1866, he was married to Miss Mary W. Lyon, of Bridgeport, Conn., and has two interesting
little daughters.

     Dr. Linsley has held no public office, but takes great interest in politics. In the last campaign he
was an ardent supporter of Horace Greeley.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave

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LINSLEY, JOHN STEPHEN

, Bethel, Connnecticut, born Northford, Conn., January
19, 1838 ; literary education at the State Normal School of Connecticut, New Britain, class of 1859 ; studied medicine with Dr. Charles E.
Sanford of Bridgeport from 1861 to 1862 ; enlisted in the 14th U. S. Inf., October, 1862 ; served three years as hospital steward and received
full appointment to that rank in May, 1864 ; matriculated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in October, 1864 ; graduated M. D. from New
York Homœopathic Medical College in 1866 ; house physician New York Homœopathic Dispensary, 1866-1872 ; retired from practice in the city in
1902 and removed to Bethel, Conn.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King