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REV. CORNELIUS WILLIAM WYCOFF, pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church, post office Upper St. Clair, was born Oct. 14, 1837, in Carroll county, Ohio, a son of Isaac and Katherine (Frye) Wycoff, born, respectively, Dec. 7, 1814, in West Virginia, and March 3, 1818, in Maryland. His paternal grandfather, Cornelius Wycoff, was born in New Jersey, Dec. 16, 1787, a descendant of Cornelissin Wycoff, who came from Holland in 1636, and settled on Manhattan island. His paternal grandmother, Leah (Critser) Wycoff, was born March 1, 1789; his maternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth Frye, were Germans. The subject of this sketch spent his youth in Ohio, and attended the New Hagerstown Academy. In 1861 he entered Washington College of Washington county, Pa., and graduated in 1862. The September following he entered the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, graduating in 1865. In May of that year he took charge of the Bacon Ridge and East Springfield churches, Ohio, and remained until November, 1873, when he resigned to take his present charge at Bethel, being the fourth pastor of that church, which was one hundred years old in 1878. He married, Dec. 19, 1865, Martha B. Morrison, born Nov. 25, 1839, at New Hagerstown, Ohio, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Johnson) Morrison, born, respectively, in Pennsylvania in 1808 and in Ireland September 9, 1811. Rev. and Mrs. Wycoff had following-named children: Mary K., John (died Jan. 16, 1876), William Alexander, Anna, Harry E. and Frank Isaac.