Walter Scott Wyman

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), 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.

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 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.

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