Biography of 	LYNCH, Robert Clyde, M. D., Carson City, NV., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, 
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 266-267.  Edited 
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical 
Association.

Lynch, Robert Clyde, M. D., of New Orleans, was born at Carson City, Nev., 
in 1880, the son of William Mercer, and Minerva (Maitland) Lynch.  Dr. 
Lynch's father was born at Connersville, Ind., April 23, 1855, son of Isaac 
and Margaret (Ulen) Lynch.  Isaac, a native of Georgetown, O., (1811) was 
the son of John Lynch, who spent his life in Ohio, where Isaac was reared 
and became a teacher, self-educated.  He had for a pupil, in Georgetown, 
Ulysses S. Grant, who afterwards was general-in-chief of the United States 
army during the Civil war, and after the war, president of the United 
States.  After his marriage in Ohio with the daughter of a Methodist 
Episcopal minister, Isaac Lynch moved to Indiana, and engaged in business 
in the town of Dunkirk, where, in 1870, he was remembered by his former 
pupil, then president of the United States, who appointed him to a position 
in the United States comptroller's office, at Washington, D. C., and he was 
thus employed until 2 years before his death.  William Mercer Lynch received 
his early education in private schools and in the high school of Hamilton, 
O., graduating in 1879.  He continued his higher studies in Washington City,
and at Wesleyan university, Delaware, O.; taking a special course in 
chemistry, physics and mineralogy.  In April, 1875, he entered the service 
of the United States government at the mint in Carson City, and in 1884 was 
appointed assistant assayer in the mint, New Orleans.  He studied medicine 
at Tulane university, graduating in 1896.  In June, 1899, was promoted to 
be assayer in the mint at New Orleans.  He is affilated with the Order of 
Knights of Pythias.  In 1879, he married Miss Minerva Maitland, a native of 
Muncie, Ind.  They had 1 child, the subject of this sketch, who came to New 
Orleans with his parents when 4 years of age, and was educated in the 
public schools, graduating from the Boys' high school in 1898.  The same 
year he entered the medical department of Tulane university, and graduated 
in 1902.  During his term at Tulane he served 2 years as interne of the 
charity hospital, having won that position in a competitive examination.  
After spending 2 years and 8 months in Natchitoches, La., where he 
established the Natchitoches sanitarium, Dr. Lynch returned to New Orleans, 
and took a post-graduate course in the study of eye, ear, nose and throat 
diseases; then went abroad and for 7 months was a student in London and in 
Vienna, returning to New Orleans and beginning the practice of medicine as 
a specialist.  At the eye, ear, nose and throat hospital he was clinical 
assistant, and after the death of Dr. Gordon King, was given full charge of 
the hospital.  Since May, 1910, he has been associated with the eminent 
physician, Dr. A. W. de Roaldes, founder of the eye, ear, nose and throat 
hospital.  Oct., 1910, he was appointed acting professor of oto-laryngology 
at Tulane, and just 1 year after, was head of that department, a position 
he still holds.  Dr. Lynch is a member of the American Laryngological, 
Otological, Rinological societies; the American Academy of Ophthalmology 
and Oto-Laryngology; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; the 
American Medical association, and the Louisiana State and Orleans Parish 
Medical societies.  In 1906, Dr. Lynch married Amanda Genin of New Orleans, 
and they have 2 children, Mercer Genin and Robert Clyde, Jr.