Walter S. Wyman

Walter S. Wyman
Born	Walter Scott Wyman May 6, 1874 West Waterville, Maine, U.S.
Died	November 15, 1942(1942-11-15) (aged 68) Maine, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine, U.S.

Walter Scott Wyman (May 6, 1874 – November 15, 1942) was an American businessman. He was one of the two founders of Central Maine Power (CMP),[1] whose Wyman Power Station 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.[1]

In 1899, he founded Central Maine Power with his friend Harvey Doane Eaton.[1] They started out in a building, formerly owned by Oakland Electric Light Company, on Messalonskee Stream.[2]

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.[3] He is interred in Forest Grove Cemetery in Augusta, Maine. His wife was buried beside him upon her death four years later.

His son built Wyman Power Station, on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, Maine, in 1959, three years before his own death.[4]

Legacy

In 1949, he was the subject of William Bertram Skelton's book Walter S. Wyman: One of Maine's Great Pioneers.[5]

References

1. "Walter S. Wyman, Augusta, ca. 1925". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
2. "Walter S. Wyman, Electrical Entrepreneur". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
3. "'WALTER S. WYMAN, INDUSTRIALIST, DIES; Head of Central Maine Power, .Cumberland County Power & Light Companies PLANNING LARGE MERGER Aided Bath Iron Works When Firm Was in Difficulties, Also Helped Large Cotton Mills". The New York Times. 1942-11-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
4. "W.F. Wyman steam station, Yarmouth, 1963". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
5. Skelton, William Bertram (1949). Walter S. Wyman (1874-1942) one of Maine's great pioneers. New York: Newcomen Society in North America.