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Frank B. Wynn


Frank Barbour Wynn

May 28, 1860-July 27, 1922

Frank Barbour Wynn was born in Springfield, Indiana and was graduated from De Pauw University in 1883. He studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati. Wynn became the first city sanitarian of Indianapolis and was identified with the faculty of the Indiana Medical College (Indiana University School of Medicine). He was director of the American Medical Association for seventeen years.

Wynn chaired the first Centennial Committee which made a strong argument for educational and historical components for the celebration. The state legislature then passed a law creating the Historical Commission. Wynn was elected vice-president and acting chairman of the Commission.

Wynn is given credit for the initiative that fathered the movement for state parks as centennial memorials. He was later named chairman of the State Park Board. Wynn also served on the Indianapolis Public Library board and chaired the Civil Improvement Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Indianapolis.

Sources:
Jacob Piatt Dunn, Indiana and Indianans, Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1919, 5:2280-2282.