Mr. Wyckoff was born in Wertsville, Hunterdon County, N. J., October 19, 1548, and received his education in the adjoining County of Mercer, attending the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter in Hopewell, N. J., which he followed as a journeyman for ten years, principally in Princeton and Asbury Park. During the last twenty years he has been actively and successfully engaged in business for himself as a carpenter. contractor, and builder, beginning in Asbury Park and continuing since August, 1887, in West Hoboken, N. J. More than one hundred dwellings in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove and an equal number in Hudson County are the result of Mr. Wyckof'f's energy and enterprise, and all bear evidence of his skill, thorough workmanship, and executive ability. He has also erected many other buildings of note, including the old elevated structure of the West Shore Railroad in Weehawken.

He is an ardent and consistent Democrat, and during the past six years has served as a member of the Board of Education of West Hoboken, where lie resides, having his home at 722 Dubois Street. In May, 1865, he enlisted in the Thirty-fourth Regiment, United States regular army, and for eighteen months was connected with the Freedman's Bureau in Texas, thus gaining an active experience in the great reconstruction problem. He then became a civilian, and remained there in all four years, when he returned North and took up the trade of carpenter. Mr. Wyckoff is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of Union Hill, of Columbia Lodge, No. 151, K. of P., and of West Shore Council, No. 1097, R. A. He is widely respected, not alone because of his prominence in contracting and building circles, but also on account of the active interest he has taken in local affairs and especially in all matters affecting the public welfare.