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Progressive Men of
Minnesota
Minneapolis Journal
1897
 FREDERICK
HENRY BOARDMAN comes of good, old Colonial stock
in New Brunswick. His father, George A. Boardman,
originally a citizen of New Brunswick, is a
retired lumberman of Calais, Maine. He was a man
of scientific tastes and attainments, and is known
as one of the leading ornithologists of the United
States. George A. Boardman’s wife was Mary Jane
Hill, a woman of noble character, whose memory is
held in reverent and affectionate regard by her
children.
The subject of this
sketch was born at Milltown, New Brunswick, April
25, 1848.
His early education was obtained at St.
Stephen’s Academy, and at Phillis Academy at
Andover, Massachusetts., where he prepared for
college. He then entered Bowdoin college, where he
was a graduate of the class of 1869. While in
college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon
society; was the prize speaker of his class, and a
leader in all college sports. He was awarded by
the teacher in gymnastics a special cup for being
the best at sparring and in all the athletic
contests of the school.
Having completed his
college course he began the study of law with E.
B. Harvey, of Calais, Maine, and was admitted to
the bar in 1876. Two years later he came to
Minnesota and settled in Minneapolis for the
practice of his profession. He formed a law
partnership with C. M. Ferguson, which continued
from 1878 to 1885. He is now, and has for several
years, been associated professionally with M. H.
Boutelle, and the firm has always had its share of
important litigation.
Mr. Boardman has always been
a Republican, and represented one of the
Minneapolis districts in the Minnesota legislature
in 1882 and 1883. His home has been in the city of
Minneapolis until recently, when he removed to his
farm at Blaine, Anoka county, where he now
resides, although continuing his professional
business in the city. He was married in Brunswick,
Maine, in 1870, to Harriet C. Boutelle. They have
two children, Lucy B. and Ralph T.
 GEORGE HENRY WYMAN of Anoka, Minnesota,
was born in Chester, Penobscot County, Maine, on
August 24, 1852. He traces his ancestry back to
the best old Massachusetts families Francis Wyman
came from Westmill, England, about 1640 and
settled at Woburn, Massachusetts. He and his
brother John, who came with him, obtained a large
grant of land from the Indians and were the third
largest land owners in the colony of
Massachusetts. A later Francis Wyman, grandfather
of the subject of this sketch, was a captain in
the war of 1812, and others of the family have
held important and honorable positions in New
England. James Webster Wyman, son of the veteran
of the War of 1812 and father of Mr. George Wyman,
is a farmer and lumberman, and a native of Orono,
Maine, and is still living. He has held town and
school offices for twenty years in succession, and
was a member of the state legislature in 1866 and
1867. He married Miss Elizabeth Adams, who was a
direct descendant of the famous Adams family of
Massachusetts.
In his boyhood days Mr.
Wyman attended the public schools in the vicinity
of his home and later went to the Mattanawcook
Academy at Lincoln and the Lee Normal School at
Lee, Maine. He finished fitting for college at the
Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, graduating
in 1873. He entered Bates College at Lewiston, in
1873, and graduated in 1877, receiving the
distinction of being class orator. Previously he
had received a prize for original orations.
After leaving college
Mr. Wyman read law in Lewiston, Bangor and Dover,
and was admitted to practice in all the courts of
Maine at Dover in 1881. In 1883 he came to
Minnesota and settled at Anoka, where he has since
remained actively engaged in the practice of his
profession. He was made court commissioner and
held the office for four years. Later he became
county attorney and afterwards city attorney,
holding the former position for six years and
being now in his fourth year in the latter office.
Mr. Wyman has tried many civil and criminal cases
with success. The analysis of testimony and the
presentation of a case to the jury are considered
his strong points. During his
service as prosecutor he never had an indictment
set aside or a demurrer sustained. Mr. Wyman
has always been a Republican. He is now chairman
of the Republican county committee of Anoka and
president of the Anoka Republican Club. His
professional and political duties have frequently
given him occasion to exercise the oratorical
powers which he developed as a boy in college and
he has the reputation of being a public speaker of
unusual eloquence.
Mr. Wyman is Past Chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias, and Past Regent of the
Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Anoka library
board and of the board of education, being also
treasurer of the latter body. He is a member of
the Baptist church and takes a lively interest in
all departments of religious activity. On June
30, 1886, Mr. Wyman married Miss Orie D. Storms,
of Anoka, daughter of Capt. L. P.
Storms, formerly of New York. They have two
children, May and Orabelle, aged nine and five
years.
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