Frank B. Wynn

Frank Barbour Wynn (May 28, 1859 – July 27, 1922) was an American psychiatrist and early environmental conservationist.

Early life and family His father, James M. Wynn was born in 1832 and his mother, Margaret, was born in 1835. This family was listed in the 1860 US census as the most prosperous farmers on the page. His mother, Margaret, was the youngest of the five brothers and five sisters in her family. His grandparents were John and Rachel Wynn, both born in 1789.

Education Wynn graduated from DePauw University in 1883. Two years later he graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati, following which he served one year as intern in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, a position he obtained after a competitive examination. In 1886, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts, also from DePauw University.

Professional life After spending a few years studying and mountain climbing in Europe, Wynn returned to Indianapolis to set up his professional practice, giving emphasis to internal medicine, diagnosis, and pathology. Dr. David Walters further stated that, "Since that time his activities were 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." Wynn was selected as the first city sanitarian of Indianapolis and became identified with the Department of Pathology of the Medical College of Indiana. From 1895 until his death, for 27 years, he held the Chair of Medical Diagnosis in the Indiana School of Medicine. Wynn served as assistant physician in the Ohio Asylum for the Insane, at Dayton, Ohio from 1886 to 1888. At the Ohio Asylum, Wynn came under the tutelage of Dr. Josiah Rogers and Dr. Sam Smith, distinguished neuropsychiatrists who would later head the American Psychiatric Association. Smith also later became the first chancellor of the Indiana University School of Medicine.