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WYCKOFF, Isaac Newton, clergyman, born in Hillsborough, Somerset County, New Jersey, 29 August. 17, (t2. died in Albany, New York, 28 March. 1869. He taught to obtain means to enter college, was graduated at Rutgers in 1813, and at New Brunswick theological seminary in 1817, and while a student at the latter institution was principal of a young ladies' school in New Brunswick. He was pastor of the 1st Reformed Dutch church in Leeds, New York, in 1817-'34, of that in Catskill in 1834-'6, and of the 2d Reformed Dutch church in Albany in 1836-'66. During the last-named pastorate 1,000 persons were received into his church. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1838, and from Rutgers in 1839. Dr. Wyckoff was an able and at times an eloquent preacher. He was active in benevolent and educational enterprises, and a volunteer commissioner of immigration to the numerous Hollanders that came to the vicinity of Albany between 1845 and 1865. He contributed to the religious press and to Dr. William B. Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit," and published seventeen sermons (Albany, 1827-'66).
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