Representative Albert Whitney Wyman View All Years

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Albert Whitney Wyman

Pottawattamie County

Born at Parma, Monroe County, New York, February 20, 1834, the son of Samuel and Betsey (Atchinson) Wyman. Mr. Wyman attended school until he was nineteen years old, and then served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, and also worked as a journeyman. He was engaged in railroad work, building bridges, taking and letting out contracts, and acting as foreman and superintendent of a force of mechanics for several years in different parts of the State. He was then engaged in farming near Troy and Fort Edward until 1871. He was Lieutenant of Company C, Twenty-fourth Regiment, New York. In 1871 he came to this county, when the nearest house was five miles distant east of him, and bought 160 acres, and increased his possessions to 753 acres. Mr. Wyman is a Democrat, who has held many township offices in the last fifteen years. He was a representative of the Twenty-second General Legislative Assembly, with honor to both himself and his party. Mr. Wyman suggested and named the town of Keg Creek, in which he was its first Treasurer, Township Trustee and Justice of the Peace. He is a Royal Arch Mason, Excelsior Lodge, Council Bluffs, having been made a Mason in 1856, at Waterford, New York. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, was President of the Township Alliance, and Treasurer of the County Alliance. He was married November 10, 1857, to Miss Harriet M. Peck, of Half Moon, Saratoga County, New York, the daughter of Abraham and Betsey Ann (Wood) Peck.

House District 31