Born in Hartford, Connecticut, April 26, 1850, and died in Los Angeles, California, July 28, 1934. His parents were Charles D. and Mary A. (Bartlet) Wyman. He obtained his early education in public school, and later attended Shattuck College, Faribault, Minnesota. He early entered the employ of Hamilton & Wabasha as clerk in their warehouse and express business, following that by buying grain on his own account. A year later he became a salesman for a nursery company in Minneapolis. In 1873 he removed to Sheldon, Iowa, and with his brother Frank engaged in the grain business. At the time of Sheldon's incorporation in 1876, he was elected mayor, and altogether served six terms in that office. He was instrumental in establishing the Union Bank of Sheldon in 1882, and was president of it for some time in its early history. Disposing of his banking interests he wrote insurance for the Northwestern Mutual Life Company. He took an active part in politics, was a presidential elector in 1888 and in 1889 was elected representative in the Twenty-third General Assembly, the session of the famous deadlock in the organization of the House. Mr. Wyman was married on June 1878, to Miss Clara E. Albright of Primghar. About 1899 he removed to Des Moines, was president of the Merchants Savings Bank of that city but later sold his Des Moines interests and removed to Los Angeles where he lived in retirement.