Cornelius D. Wynkoop, who lives at 654 Warren street, this city, a printer at 25 Ann street, New York, is accused by Anthony Comstock of printing obscene poems, and in his office were found a number of green goods circulars. He was arraigned yesterday before Justice White in the Tombe police court, and held for examination.
Source: Unknown, "Accused of Printing Obscene Poems," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, Sunday, 28 September 1890, p. 3.
Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about him on pages 203-204:
1450. Cornelius De Witt Wynkoop, (Genl. Cornelius E. 896, Evert C. 517, Maj. Cornelius E. 295, Capt. Evert 112, Cornelius 28, Evert 4, Cornelius 1,) born April 6, 1830: died January 9, 1899, in the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., after a surgical operation: married, 1st, April 4, 1858, Harriet Pook, from England, who died October 21, 1889. He married, 2d, April 10, 1892, in Brooklyn, Mrs. Mary Annie (Miller) Scrymser, widow of Charles Arlington Scrymser.
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