THE
VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT
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ROSCOE D WYATT
Bio-Sawyers
Surnames: TOLER
ROSCOE D. WYATT.-That the widely-influential San Jose Chamber of
Commerce owes much of its present efficiency, whereby it has been able
to accomplish much for the development of Santa Clara County, to its
wide-awake manager, Roscoe D. Wyatt, all who have followed the
Chamber's rapid and healthy growth of late will realize. With all due
credit to those who did the invaluable pioneer work before him, Mr.
Wyatt has
certainly carried the flag of conquest beyond where, even under the
most favorable circumstances, it had ever been placed.
Mr. Wyatt was born at Salem, Ill., on March 11, 1883, the son of Robert
A. and Laura E. Wyatt, and so came to attend the public schools of the
Prairie State. In course of time, he became a student at the Southern
Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale from which he was
graduated in 1903, and then, having matriculated in 1909 from the
College of Literature and Arts, with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and
from the College of Law with the L.L. B. degree. He then taught in both
the grammar and high schools in Illinois for three years and later, for
three and one half years, practiced law in that state.
Deciding to break into a new field, Mr. Wyatt removed to the East and
became manager of the Hoboken, N. J., Chamber of Commerce, a post he
filled so acceptably that he remained there for four years. His
reputation traveled westward, and on December 1, 1919, he was appointed
manager of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. While in Illinois, Mr.
Wyatt had been mayor of the city of Salem from 1913 to 1915, as he was
also secretary and treasurer of the Salem Ice Company, and in both of
these fields of endeavor, as well as in his Hoboken office, he had
acquired much, including an increased knowledge of human nature, which
has been of great service both to San Jose and to Santa Clara County.
His general knowledge of Eastern as well as of Western conditions is a
valuable asset in itself.
At Carbondale, Ill., on June 1, 1908, Mr. Wyatt was married to Miss
Lillian Ethel Toler, the daughter of Capt. John Toler of that city; and
this union has been blessed with the birth of one son, Francis D.
Wyatt. While in college and the university, Mr. Wyatt belonged to the
Acacia College fraternity and the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity, and
later he became a Mason, and is a member of the Chapter, the Council
and the Consistory. He is also a member of the Rotary Club.