The 1914 history traces the Wycoff line to two men named Peter Wycoff, both natives of Holland. James Wycoff, born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1798, built the White Woman canal in Ohio and in 1846 started west with his wife Rachel (Cecil) Wycoff for Raccoon Forks, but discouraging reports met at Waugh's Point, now Hedrick, turned the family back to Jefferson County, Iowa, where he soon died. Their son William B. Wycoff came to Wapello County in 1853, farmed north of Ottumwa, managed the Great Western Nursery and dealt in real estate and loans for about twenty years; the 1901 history gives his birth as May 6, 1841, and the 1914 history as May 6, 1835. His son J. C. Wycoff, born in Richland Township in 1859, bought his father's farm in Center Township. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Wapello County history.
Where the family starts
Peter Wycoff and his son Peter Wycoffthe earliest generation in the recordMost recent in our records
J. C. (James Calvin) Wycoffborn 1859Tap a name to jump to that person.
Canal contractor in Ohio; settled in Jefferson County, Iowa
Farmer, nurseryman, and real estate and loan dealer
WILLIAM BOYD WYCOFF.
William Boyd Wycoff is one of the venerable citizens of Ottumwa but still engaged in business to some extent, handling real estate and loans. He has ever enjoyed the high respect and confidence of the community in which he has lived and for many years Wapello county has been his home. He was born May 6, 1835, in Coshocton county, Ohio, a son of James and Rachel (Cecil) Wycoff. His great-grandfather and his grandfather both bore the name of Peter Wycoff, and both were natives of Holland. James Wycoff was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in July, 1798, and his wife was a native of Maryland, born in October, 1799. James Wycoff was a prominent canal builder of his day, taking contracts for the construction of the White Woman canal and others through Ohio in pioneer times, when travel by water was. largely the means of reaching from point to point.
With the removal of the family to Jefferson county, Iowa, William B.
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Farmer, Center Township
C. WYCOFF, a prominent and influential farmer of Center township, Wapello county, Iowa, is located in section I, township 72, range 14, where he has a tract of 131 acres. He was born January 11, 1859, in Richland township, within a mile of his present residence, and is a son of AA B. Wycoff.
A\' B. W'yciff, a record of whose life appears elsewhere in this work, purchased the land on which his son, J. C., is located, in 1862, of r. Frazier, William Martin having first entered it. Wv. Wycoft made great improvements upon it, built the fine large house, together with outbuildings and barns necessary to house the stock and grain raised on the place. After
6S4 placingit under a high state of cultivation, he disposed Oif it to his son,, J. C. WycOiff.
J. C. W)-coff's education was limited to the public schools, but he received sufficient learning to become an efficient clerk, which occupation he followed in Ottumwa for three years. He then went to farming and met with much success during the fifteen years he pursued that work. He next engaged in the real-estate business in Ottumwa, at which he continued until the purchase of his father's farm, and since that time has industriously followed agricultural pursuits with good results. He has nearly all of the land under cultivation, and has made his main success in this business. He is possessed of many high traits of character, for which he has the admiration and esteem of all with whom he is acquainted.
Mr. Wycoff was united in marriage, in 1884, with Laura S. Spry, an estimable lady, by whom he had one son, born in July, 1885. He was joined in marriage with his present wife, Mrs. Maggie (Logan) Harris, in April, 1899. They have one son, Howard L., who was born April 19, 1900. Mr. Wycoff is a Republican. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
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