Wyman House

Wyman House, the residence of the dean of the graduate school, was built in 1913 at the same time as the Graduate College, which it adjoins. It was named for Isaac C. Wyman, Class of 1848, of Salem, Massachusetts, who left the University his residuary estate of some $800,000 for the development of the Graduate College as ``a memorial of my lasting affection and interest in my Alma Mater.'' Over the fireplace in the Dean's library are hung the long-barreled flintlock musket and powder horn that Wyman's grandfather used in the French and Indian Wars and which his father, as a boy of sixteen, carried in the Revolutionary battle of Princeton. Part of the fighting was on ground now occupied by the Graduate College.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).