Walter Scott Wyman (May 6, 1874 – November 15, 1942) was an American businessman. He was one of the two founders of

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(CMP), whose

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is now named for his son, William Frizzell Wyman, the former president of CMP.

Life and career

Wyman was born in West Waterville, Maine, in 1874. He studied electrical engineering at Tufts University. During summer breaks, he managed the Western Union office in Bar Harbor. He left Tufts after his junior year, becoming general manager of the Waterville and Fairfield Railway and Electric Company. In 1899, he founded

with his friend Harvey Doane Eaton. They started out in a building, formerly owned by Oakland Electric Light Company, on Messalonskee Stream. With his wife, Massachusetts native Alice Mabel Bartlett, he had two known children: William (1902–1962) and Dorothy (1905–1993).

Death

Wyman died in 1942, aged 68. He had suffered a cardiac arrest. He is interred in Forest Grove Cemetery in

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. His wife was buried beside him upon her death four years later. His son built

, on

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in Yarmouth, Maine, in 1959, three years before his own death.

Legacy

In 1949, he was the subject of William Bertram Skelton's book ''Walter S. Wyman: One of Maine's Great Pioneers''.

References

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