W. Wilson Lynd, M.D.
One of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in his native city and county, Doctor Lynd is established in the successful general practice of his profession at Ironton, the judicial center and metropolis of Lawrence County, with office and residence at 306 South Sixth Street. In the surgical branch of his profession he has performed numerous minor operations and assisted in delicate major operations, but he has not found it expedient to specialize in any phase of practice, as his services have been in requisition along general lines and his success has been such as to indicate popular appreciation of his ability and of his devotion to his exacting and humane vocation.
Doctor Lynd was born at Ironton on the 25th of January, 1879, and is a son of William H. and Nalona L. (Urick) Lynd, both representatives of honored pioneer families of Lawrence County, where the father was born. at Burlington, on the 3d of November, 1852, the mother having been born at Ironton in 1854 and having here been called to the life eternal when but thirty years of age, her death having occurred in 1884. William H. Lynd later wedded Miss Flora Cumpston and they have five children—Georgia, Benjamin, Grace, Howard and Edith. Of the four children of the first marriage one died in infancy and those surviving are James C., Josephine, and Dr. W. Wilson Lynd, of this review. William H. Lynd is a well known citizen and business man of Ironton, where he is engaged in the retail grocery business.
In the public schools of Ironton Doctor Lynd continued his studies until his graduation in the high school, in 1899, and in preparing himself for the work of his chosen profession he was signally favored in having the advantages of that excellent institution, Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati. He was there graduated as a member of the class of 1903, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and he soon afterward established himself in practice at Ironton, where he continued his labors until a nervous breakdown rendered it expedient for him to lesson his strenuous application and seek more or less radical change, in 1908. He passed about six months in the City of Hanford, California, and thereafter remained about three months in New Mexico, where he passed the required examination and qualified for practice, though his brief sojourn in that section of the Union did not permit him to engage in professional work save in an incidental way. Upon his return to Lawrence County, Ohio, the doctor engaged in practice at South Point, where he built up a substantial business and remained three years. In April, 1912, he resumed practice in the City of Ironton, where he has since continued his successful efforts and controls an excellent practice of representative order. He keeps in close touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science, by availing himself of the best of its standard and periodical literature and through his active affiliation with the Ohio State Medical Society and the Lawrence County Medical Society. While a resident of South Point he served as health officer of the village.
In politics Dr. Lyiid continues to pay unfaltering loyalty to the republican party; both he and his wife hold membership in Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church; and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Junior Order of United America n Mechanics, and the Daughters of America, besides which he is identified with the lronfon Chamber of Commerce and is an earnest supporter of its high civic and commercial ideals and policies.
On the 4th of June. 1902, Dr. Lynd wedded .Miss Clara Weist, daughter of Henry Weist, a prominent contractor and builder in the City of Cincinnati, and the two children of this union are Lester O.. and W. Wilson, Jr.
From A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916