Hon. ALBERT WHITNEY WYMAN, OF section 22, Keg Creek Township, is engaged in general farming, cattle feeding and stock raising, and the proprietor of Maple Grove stock farm, and a well-known and prominent citizen of this county, who came here March 29, 1871. He was born at Parma, Monroe County, New York, February 20, 1834, the son of Samuel and Betsey (Atchinson) Wyman, who was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, May 31, 1789, was a blacksmith and served in the war of 1812, and whose father, Samuel Wyman, Sr., served in the Revolutionary War. The Wyman family were of English ancestry, and first settled at Sheffield, Massachusetts. Our subject's mother, Betsey Atchison, was born January 21, 1799, at Parma, Monroe County, New York, the daughter of John Atchison, and one of the very first settlers in that town and county, and Betsey was the first female white child born at Parma. Her mother was Almira (Fuller) Atchihson, and her brother, Austin Athinson, was in the war of 1812, and is now living in Spencerport, New York, at the venerable age of 100 years. The parents had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, of whom Albert was the youngest son. They lived in Monroe County, and the mother was buried in the same town where she was born, being eighty-five at her death, and the father, who was born in 1789, died at the age of eighty-seven. He was a blacksmith by trade.

Albert 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. Mr. Wyman 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, which have been well improved and cultivated. He has set out 7,000 forest and 140 fruit trees. The farm, Maple Grove, is a beautiful home, and it is where Mr. Wyman is at home to all who wish to partake of his hospitality.

He 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, the former a native of Dutchess County, New York, and the latter of Lansingburg, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Wyman have lost three children by death, two infants and one daughter, Hattie A., who was twelve years of age; and they have one son living, Burton A., who was married in this county to Miss Leticia Flood, a daughter of James Flood, of this township. They have four children, two sons and two daughters: Charles Albert, James, Hattie and an infant daughter. They live in Council Bluffs, but own a farm near their father. Mr. A.W. 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, and still holds the treasuryship. 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, is president of the township alliance and treasurer of the county alliance.

Mr. Wyman lost his beloved wife by death, June 29, 1888. She was an estimable lady, of great intelligence, and always helped her husband in his business plans, and was a kind wife and mother. (It is unknown which spelling is correct for Atchinson, Atchison, or Atchihson.)