Alfred Lee Wyman Biography


	This biography appears on pages 58-61 in "History of Dakota 
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				ALFRED LEE WYMAN. 

	Alfred Lee Wyman is filling the office of county attorney and 
public interests are carefully protected through his ability in 
handling the litigated interests in which the county becomes involved. 
The city of Yankton, in which he now resides, is the place of his 
nativity. He was born on the 9th of December, 1874, and is a son of 
Frank D. Wyman, a native of the state of New York, who, however, was 
taken to Walworth county, Wisconsin, during his infancy. He died 
December 13, 1913, at the age of seventy-two years. He had married 
Mattie C. Robertson, a native of Alabama, and she is still a resident 
of Yankton. In their fame fly were six children, of whom three died in 
infancy, the others being: Mattie M., the wife of F. A. Kloppe, a 
resident of Yankton; Alfred Lee; and Lute A., who is engaged in the 
butchering business in Yankton. 

	Alfred Lee Wyman was educated in the public schools of Yankton 
and is a high-school graduate. The profession of law proved to him an 
attractive one when he made choice of a life work and in preparation 
for practice he read law in the office of French & Orvis. He was 
admitted to the bar in October, 1896, and was thereafter variously 
employed until the fall of 1899, when he opened a law office in 
Bridgewater, McCook county, South Dakota, where he remained for two 
years. He then came to Yankton in January, 1902, and entered at once 
upon the active practice of his profession in this city. He remained in 
general practice until elected state's attorney of Yankton county in 
the fall of 1904, qualifying for the office in January, 1905. He made 
so excellent a record in that position that he was reelected in 1906 
and so served until January, 1909. He had been elected a member of the 
state legislature in 1908 and the following year entered upon his 
duties in that position. His course in the lower house led to his 
election to the state senate in the fall of 1910 for a two years, term 
and in both the upper and lower houses of the general assembly he gave 
careful consideration to the questions which came up for settlement. In 
the fall of 1912 and again in 1914 he was reelected state's attorney of 
Yankton county and is serving in that position at the present time. 
From May, 1909, until May, 1914, four terms in all, he was city 
attorney and was reelected but refused to continue longer in the 
position. His political allegiance has always been given to the 
republican party and he has been an active, earnest and effective 
worker in its ranks, his opinions carrying weight in its local councils 
and his efforts contributing to its success. He has never desired to 
hold office, however, outside the strict path of his profession. 

	On the 8th of December, 1900, Mr. Wyman was married to Miss 
Bessie M. White, a native of Hutchinson county, South Dakota, and a 
daughter of W. B. White, a pioneer of that county, who laid out and 
platted the townsite of Olivet, the county seat. Mr. and Mrs. Wyman 
have become parents of seven children, as follows: Leila, who was born 
September 30, 1901; Gale, whose birth occurred November 23, 1902; 
Frank, born February 2, 1904; Keith, April 6, 1905; Blake, December 25, 
1908; Ward, October 13, 1910; and Lyle, December 4, 1912. 

	In fraternal circles Mr. Wyman is widely known and he is ever 
loyal to the basic principles upon which such organizations are 
founded. He has membership in St. John's Lodge, No. 1, A. F. & A. M., 
and in Oriental Consistory, No. 1, S. P. R. S., has attained the thirty 
second degree of the Scottish Rite. He belongs also to Phoenix Lodge, 
No. 34, K. P.; Yankton Lodge, No. 994, B. P. O. E.; the Modern Woodmen 
of America; and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Yankton county is 
proud of his record as that of one of her native sons, for, while there 
have been no spectacular phases in his life, he has been loyal to the 
duties which each day has brought him and has been actuated by a 
progressive spirit in all that he has undertaken, whereby he has won a 
creditable place as a representative of the Yankton county bar.