San Joaquin County
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CHARLES HENRY WYMAN
CHARLES HENRY WYMAN, an
attorney on land and mining claims, in Stockton, and was born in Salem,
Massachusetts, October 23, 1848, a son of Humphrey Barrett and Louisann Weston
(Hill) Wyman, both natives of Massachusetts and descendants of the Pilgrims. The
mother’s family traces relationship with Governor Endicott, and the father’s
with General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary renown. The father, at one time a
merchant of Boston, is still living in that city.
The subject of this sketch was educated in
the public schools of Boston, until the age of fourteen, when he entered
Captain Thompson’s Naval Academy, from which he was graduated at sixteen.
Receiving the appointment of midshipman in the United States Navy, he was
placed on the Santiago de Cuba, of the North Atlantic squadron, which soon
engaged in pursuit of the rebel privateer Alabama, chasing her into Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Mr. Wyman was promoted to the position of master’s mate, but
resigned to enlist in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which,
however, was at the front only four months, when the war closed. Engaging in
nothing of a permanent character for more than a year after the disbandment of
the volunteers, Mr. Wyman took shipping at Brooklyn, New York, on board the
barque Whistler for this coast, coming by way of Cape Horn. Arriving in San
Francisco May 19, 1867, he soon afterward came to this city, and was engaged a
few years in various avocations of a more or less temporary character. Removing
to Sacramento, he then filled the position of chief clerk in the United States
land office from 1870 to 1878. While in that city he read law under Henry
Edgerton, and was appointed a notary public. He there became a member of Sumner
Post, G. A. R., and was there married January 1, 1873, to Miss Mary E.
Dickerson, a native of El Dorado County, who died in September, 1876, leaving
one child, Arthur L., born March 30, 1874. Leaving Sacramento in 1879, he
traveled for a time and spent about one year in San Jose de Guatemala.
Returning to Sacramento, he soon afterward came to this city and engaged in his
present business of attorney in land and mining claims, in which class of cases
his law studies and land-office experience have made him an expert. He also
holds the position of notary public, his last appointment for four years being
dated April 25, 1889.
Mr. Wyman was again married February 14,
1888, in this city, to Mrs. Mary A. (Sutter) Thomas, a native of Albany, New
York, and at the date of this marriage a widow with four children.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 651. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago,
Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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