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FRANK BARBOUR WYNN. 



Brookville, Indiana. Mt. Siyeh, Montana. 



May 28, 1860. July 27, 1922. 



Since the last meeting of the Academy we have lost one of our 

 most useful and most distinguished members, in the passing of Dr. 

 Frank Barbour Wynn. He became a member of the Academy at the 

 annual meeting in 1916, and while he contributed few papers he was 

 prompt in his attendance and helpful and practical in his suggestions. 

 His smiling countenance and his cheerful voice will be sorely missed 

 by all. In his varied activities he represented the highest type of 

 American manhood. 



Frank Barbour Wynn was a native of Indiana, his birthplace, Brook- 

 ville, Franklin County, Indiana, the same as that of the Indiana Acad- 

 emy of Science. He was born May 28, 1860. He graduated at DePauw 

 University in 1883, with the degree of A. B. This institution, in 1886, 

 granted him the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1922, just a month 

 prior to his death, they conferred upon him the honorary degree of 

 Doctor of Science. In 1885 he was graduated from the Miami Medical 

 College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, with the degree of M. D. 



He was assistant physician in the Ohio Insane Asylum, at Dayton, 

 Ohio, from 1886 to 1888, and in 1891 he was on the medical staff of 

 the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, at Logansport. In the 

 years 1892 and 1893 he studied in the hospitals and other institutions 

 of New York, London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, and then located for 

 the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. Since that time his 

 activities have been so varied and of such value that no history of 

 Indiana, covering the period from 1900 to the date of his death, can 

 be fully and truthfully written without frequent mention of them. He 

 was the president of the State Historical Commission, and bore a lead- 

 ing part in the centennial celebration of Indiana's admission to state- 

 hood. He was a valued and useful member of the Indiana Historical 

 Society, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and was chairman of the 

 State Park Board. He was a vice-president of the American Medical 

 Association in 1921, president of the Indiana Medical Association in 

 1914 and 1915, president of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association 

 in 1920, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was 

 held in highest esteem by all his confreres. He was president of the 

 recently organized Lincoln Memorial Association. From 1895 to the 

 date of his death he held the chair of Medical Diagnosis in the Indiana 

 School of Medicine. A lover of nature, he was an active member of 

 the Indiana Audubon Society, and president of the Indiana Nature 

 Study Club. He was also a member of the committee to Collect Data 

 on the Archeology of Indiana. He was not a seeker after preferment. 

 Preferment sought him, and it ever came as a recognition of special 

 fitness. He not only occupied the several positions above enumerated, 

 but what is far more important, he filled each and all of them acceptably 

 and ably. He was a peculiar combination of versatility, profound and 

 thoroughgoing ability, and a genial and loving personality. 



