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    Wynkoop, Jonathan G., Syracuse, of Holland ancestry, and son of Rev. Peter S. Wynkoop, a Dutch Reformed clergyman (born in Kinderhook, N. Y., in 1788, died in 1848) and Margaret Gosman, his wife (of New York City, died in Ghent, N. Y., about 1832), was born in Ghent, Columbia, Co., May 13, 1824, one of five sons and seven daughters, of whom four sons became prominent booksellers, one in Hudson, another in Kingston, N. Y., and two in Syracuse. He attended Kinderhook Academy, and afterward joined his brothers in the book business in Hudson from 1841 to 1845. He then came to Syracuse, and with Rev. Joseph Myers opened a book store in the Syracuse House block. In 1848 he was joined by his brother, Robert G., and leaving the store just mentioned, the two opened a similar establishment where Brown & Dawson now are, whence it was removed four years later to the store just

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south. The brothers continued in partnership until 1870, when Jonathan G. withdrew, leaving Robert G. to carry on the store, till a few years ago. In 1873 Jonathan G. Wynkoop joined the firm of Judson, Williams & Co. in a large lumber business, having mills at Oswego and elsewhere. He is still interested in the lumber trade, and 1878 has been a director and the secretary and treasurer of the Salt Springs Solar Coarse Salt Company. He has also been interested in various other enterprises, and was one of the founders of the Dutch Reformed church on James street. In 1856 he married Miss Mary Judson Hawley, and they have three children: Mrs. Emma Judson W. Fritts, wife of a physician in Hudson, N. Y., born Jan. 14, 1858; William A., born March 5, 1863, and Dr. Edward Judson Wynkoop, born April 25, 1869. Robert G. Wynkoop, born in Catskill, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1816, was graduated from Kinderhook Academy in 1835, taught school at Coxsackie and West Troy, formed a partnership with his brother Peter S., in 1838, and engaged in the book trade in Hudson, N. Y., until 1841, when he opened a book store in Auburn. In 1848 he came to Syracuse, where he became the second oldest merchant in the city. He was one of the incorporators and for several years vice-president of the Onondaga County Savings Bank, a director in the New York State Banking and Trust and Deposit Companies; a trustee of Oakwood Cemetery, Old Ladies Home, and Onondaga County Orphan Asylum, and one of the incorporators and for some time president of the Genesee and Water Street Railway Company. He died in April, 1891. In 1846 he married Caroline C. Wood, of Auburn, who died in March, 1870, leaving two sons, James S. and Robert G., jr., and one daughter, Mrs. Charles G. Redfield, Glen Haven, N. Y.

Source:

Bruce, Dwight H., "Wynkoop, Jonathan G.," Onondaga's Centennial: Gleanings of a Century, Boston, The Boston History Company, 1896, Volume II, pp. 434-435.