George H. Wyman

"History of Anoka County" copyright 1905

    Hon. George H. Wyman, attorney at law and senior member of the firm of

  Wyman & Blanchard, Anoka, was born August 24, 1852, at Chester, Penobscot

   county, Maine.  After attending the schools of his native town, also Mattanacook

   Academy, at Lincoln, and the Lee Normal School, he graduated from the Maine

   Central Institute, of Pittsfield, in 1873.  Afterward he entered Bates College at

   Lewsiton, Maine, graduating there in 1877.  Having been well grounded in

   academical training, he decided to devote his life to the legal profession, and

   later with Plaisted & Smith, both distinguished practitioners of Bangor, finally

   finishing his legal training in the school of actual practice with Lebrooke & Parsons,

   of Foscroft, Maine.  He was admitted to practice law, including a hearing before

   the supreme court, in 1881.  In 1884 Mr. Wyman came to Anoka, his parents

   following two years later.  During his residence here his law practice has been

   varied, extensive, and eminently successful.  He has held several important

   positions in the gift of the people, and is now a representative of this, the Forty-fifth

district, in the state legislature, having been elected without an opposing candidate.  He is also a member of the

Republican State Central Committee.  His lodge affiliations are K.P., R.A. and M.W.A. 

Mr. Wyman was married in Anoka June 30, 1886, to Orie D. Storms of Hanibal, Oswego Co., N.Y.  Children: May, Orabelle and Marguerite.