Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

Memorial of Lasting Affection to
Alma Mater.
SALEM M1LLI0NAIRE's WILL
Graduate of Fifty Years Ago Leaves
Wealth to His Favorite
University.

day in the probate court, the bulk OF
his estate. which is estimated at nearly
s1O.O0OOO0. is left to the Graduate School
or Princeton University memorial
of Mr.. Wyman's lasting Affection as
the will phrases 1t, for his alma mater
John NJ. Raymond of Salem and Dean
-ndrew 8. West of the Princeton Grad
uate School. named as trustees, are Civ
en- almost absolute power in disposing Of
the property. which consists largely of
real estate holdings.
Decedent's Ruling Passion.
Mr.. Wyman. who died here last We'd
nesday at the age of eighty-two. is said
TO have had two great dominating pas
slons-one Princeton University. from
which he graduated more than fifty years
ago, and the other the acquiring of
realty.
| After completing his course at Prince
ton Mr.. Wyman was graduated from
the Harvard Law School. and practiced
mis- profession until the increasing value
of his real estate investments enabled
him to retire
To Susan B. Dickinson of Marble
mead, a niece, and his sole surviving
| relative, the multi millionaire directs
that the income of fixed sum be paid
during her life. Upon her death the
principal is to revert to the residuary
estate. and become available for use at
| Princeton.
Chapel as Memorial.
| The will also directs that the trustees
| erect . chapel as a memorial to MIR.
| Wymans parents. The chapel is to be
large enough to hold .neighborhood
meetings Sunday school classes"
| Aside from these bequests and a few
| others of minor character the whole es-
! tate is to be devoted in whole or part. as
| the trustees decide, to the Princeton
Graduate School, to maintain, develop or
| assist 1t in any way that will increase
| the power and usefulness Of the unfver-
| slty.
Native of Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Wyman was born in Marblehead
| January 81, 1898. He was left an orphan
at the age Of seven, with the fortune Of
$4,000. in which his only brother. Will
| liam, did not share. While a student at
Princeton he borrowed money from his
guardian and put through a successful
speculative deal. After graduating he
practiced law for eleven years and then
gave it up to enter the real estate buSi-
ness exclusively. he Operdteu on n large
scale. and purchased many thousand acres
of wooded western lands, both In the
United States and Canada. He never mar
ried.
Because of his refusal to keep the
houses which he owned in Lynn in repair
he was a frequent defendant in the police
court of that city. The collection Of an
tiques constituted his sole diversion, al
though he said he occasionally dissipated
to the extent of reading novel. He
hot hcaf fro
quently said there must be something the
matter with the poor.
His Holdings Extensive.
Living on the southern border Of Marble
head, Mr.. Wyman used to say that he
could walk to the northern border of the
town without leaving his own land. He
owned nearly two-thirds Of the entire
territory of Marblehead.
He was an extensive holder of western
lands, both in this country and Canada.
Where all of them are is not known, but
he was not displeased when one said that
he owned property in every state in the
Union. Once he added to a friends state
ment to that effect:
Adds to His Wealth.
Yes. and l pay taxes to Spain and
England as we'll" The Spanish holding
was hotel in Havana which he dis
posed of just before the Spanish-Amer
can war.
Within ten years Mr.. Wyman bought
tax titles to more than 10000 acres of
land in Maine. His favorite procedure
in the west was to buy wooded land. sell
the timber usually for more than the
price of the land, and keep the land. He
frequently spoke of a coal mine. a sill
yer mine and a railroad of which he was
the owner.
He continued his studies throughout
life being a Latin and Greek scholar,
and was well versed in economics He
possessed a remarkable memory. and
could quote offhand the corporation or
land laws of every state in the Union.