Final rites were held Monday in the Allen Funeral Home, at Bloomington, for William O. Lynch, 86 year-old Indiana University professor emeritus of history, who died Friday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred L. Spurlock, at Brownstown.  Burial was made in the Rose Hill cemetery, at Bloomington.
  In addition to the daughter, Prof. Lynch is survived by the widow, Mrs. Bertha Thomas Lynch; two sisters and four grandchildren; Harve and Ed Lynch, of Delphi, were cousins.
  Born at Delphi, Sept. 10, 1870, where he attended the public school, Professor Lynch was an 1896 graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, received the A.B. degree in 1903 from I.U., and the A.M. degree in 1906 from the University of Wisconsin.  He also was the Austin scholar in 1911 and 1912 at Harvard University.
  He began his teaching career in the public schools in 1890 and in 1908 joined the faculty of Indiana State.  In 1918 he became professor of history at what is now Ball State Teachers' College.
  Professor Lynch went to I.U. in 1920 as professor of American History.  In 1938 he served as acting head of the history department.
  In the summers of 1925 and 1927 he was visiting professor at the University of Alabama and in the summer of 1930, he was a visiting faculty member at the University of Tennessee.
  From 1928 until his retirement in 1941, he was editor of the Indiana Magazine of History.
  He was particularly interested in the early history of American political parties, and was the author of a book titled "Fifty Years of Party Warfare".
  He was a member of the American Historical Association, Mississippi Valley Historical Society, Indiana Historical Society, Sigma Pi social fraternity, Indiana State Teachers' Association, past president of the Bloomington Exchange Club and I.U. Faculty Club.
  He also was a charter member and first president of the History Club of I.U. and a member of the Southern Historical Association and Virginia Historical Society.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Delphi Journal, Thursday, March 3, 1957