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    Urban G. Wynkoop of Wynkoop-Vaughan Drug Company, Tacoma, Washington, was born at Plummer, Venango county, Pennsylvania, in 1863, and is a son of J. F. and Elizabeth (Leech) Wynkoop. J. F. Wynkoop was born in northwestern Pennsylvania, of Holland Dutch stock, his ancestry being among the early settlers near New Amsterdam, in with the Holland Dutch land grant company on the Hudson river. Urban G. Wynkoop received an excellent preliminary education in the schools of Jamestown, New York, and finished at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended the Pittsburg College of Pharmacy, a department of Western University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1886.
    Before the close of his school days, however, he owned two drug stores, one in Allegheny city and another at Springfield, Pennsylvania; this was before he was twenty-one years of age. In the fall of 1886 he sold out his business and went to Washington, D. C., where for a year he was in the employ of Shellor & Stephens, on the corner of Ninth and Pennsylvania avenues, one of the best drug stores in that city. A year later he removed to Tacoma and bought into the drug business of Slayden & Sayer. Still later, with Mr. Slayden as a partner, he started as a branch store, the Crystal pharmacy, at the corner of Ninth and C streets, but they afterwards dissolved partnership, Mr. Wynkoop taking the large store in the Fife Block where the Donnelly Hotel office now is. About 1896 he removed to his present location, the southwest corner of Ninth street and Pacific avenue, the best retail location in Tacoma. For several years past Mr. Elmer P. Vaughan has been a partner in the business, which is conducted under the name of Wynkoop-Vaughan Company. The concern does a very large business, and both gentlemen are successful and enterprising business men. Mr. Wynkoop is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and belongs to all the leading fraternal organizations of Tacoma.
    In June, 1882, Mr. Wynkoop was married at Jamestown, New York, to Miss Mittae F. Georgi, and two sons have been born to them: William and Albro G., both of whom are being educated in college. The pleasant home at 307 North J street is a favorite gathering place for the many friends of the family, and both Mr. and Mrs. Wynkoop are highly respected by a large circle of friends. Mr. Wynkoop has been identified with the State Pharmaceutical Association since its organization about fourteen years ago, and at

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its last convention, held July 18-21, he was elected president of the association. He was one of the organizers of the association, and assisted in drafting the first pharmaceutical law in the state.

Source:

Prosser, William Farrand, "Urban G. Wynkoop," A History of the Puget Sound Country: Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People: With Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America From the Time of Christopher Columbus Down to That of George Vancouver in 1792, When the Beauty, Richness and Vast Commercial Advantages of This Region Were First Made Known to the World, New York, Lewis Pub. Co., 1903, pp. 160-161.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about Urban's grandparents on pages 134-135:

    661. John Wynkoop, (Gerrit 372, Gerardus 153, Gerrit 45, Gerret 5, Cornelius 1:) died in August, 1860: married Elizabeth Corbett, niece of Edward C., who married John's sister Sarah. He lived in Clarion County, Penn., for some years, and then removed to Forest County, where he engaged in the lumber business. He was a county commissioner for six years, and a magistrate for several years.
    Children of John and Elizabeth Wynkoop:
1090. Curtis. Lived in Alleghany Co., Penn., probably.
1091. Francis. Lived somewhere "at the West."
1092. Miles. Lived in Brookville, Jefferson Co., Penn., probably.
1093.
1094.
1095.

    Richard added to his file on John in the 1906 Supplement to the Wynkoop Genealogy, with the following, from pages 18-19:

    661. John Wynkoop. His wife, Elizabeth Corbett, was born near Leatherwood, Clarion Co., Pa., and died at the house of her son, John M., near Siegle, Jefferson Co., Pa. They had the following children:-
          a. Candace; mar., Matross Knapp, and had four children. They lived and died in Grove City;
          b. Berthinda; mar., 1st., ______ Coleman; 2d., Samuel Eddyburn. She had eight children;
          c. Hiram; died in infancy;
          d. John Milton, b. Aug., 22, 1827, at Millstone, Forest Co., Pa.; d. Jan., 27, 1872, near Brookville, Jefferson Co., Pa.; a planter and lumber dealer; mar., Dec. 24, 1850, Harriett Anne Lorimer, b. Aug., 18, 1830, in Westmoreland Co., dau., of Benjamin Kirkpatrick and Julia Anne (Totten) Lorimer. The widow lives in Bradford Co. Children:-
              i. Clarine Melita, b. July 8, 1852; mar., Sept. 3, 1873, Rev. W. J. Barton, of Clarion Co., Pa., of the Erie Conference, M. E. Church;
             ii. Byrun Faber, b. Aug., 4, 1854; grocer at Bradford Pa.; his brother Miles with him;
            iii. Merritt Berti, b. Apl., 25, 1856; lives in Warren Co.; mar., Sept., 5, 1877, Ida M. Wadding, of Corsica, Jefferson Co.; has four children;
             iv. Olive Markarilla, b. Apl., 10, 1858; d. Oct., 21, 1858;
              v. Elizabeth Anne, b. Jan., 28, 1860; mar., May 5, 1888, Charles Zeldom Forest, Captain of the Bradford Police; has three children;
             vi. Miles Lincoln, b. Mch., 20, 1862; mar., Clara Prunkard, of Dubois, Pa.; Miles is with his brother Byrun;
            vii. Olive Emma, b. July 30, 1864; mar., Sept., 17, 1905, Thomas Milton Moore, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and lives there;
           viii. Frederick Fair, b. Oct., 30, 1867; unm.; painter and grainer, at Bradford, Pa.
          e. Jehiel Franklin (1091 in the genealogy); b. at Millstone, 1829; lives at Minneapolis, Minn.; mar., Elizabeth Leech, b. Feb., 12, 1830, in England; d. May 19, 1902;
          f. Lyman Curtis (1090 in the genealogy); b. in 1830, near Brookville, Pa.; d. Feb., 7, 1904; mar., twice, and has seven children; lived many years in Pittsburgh, Pa.
          g. Seldon Faber; d. in childhood;
          h. Josephus Byrun; d. a child;
          i. Wm. Strickland; d. Feb., 19, 1904, at Lewiston, Idaho. He was a soldier in the Union Army, and was discharged because of ill-health. His widow lives in Lewiston. They had several children.
          j. Miles Hamilton (1092 in the genealogy); he died of diphtheria, aged 21.

    Information I've received from my good friend Tom Wilbur, [email protected], of Okemos, Michigan and from other sources, has resulted in this family tree for Jehiel and his descendants:

1. JEHIEL FRANKLIN⁸ WYNKOOP (JOHN⁷, GERRIT⁶, GERARDUS⁵, GERRIT⁴, GARRET³, CORNELIUS EVERTSZ², EVERT¹) was born Abt. 1828 near Brookville, Pennsylvania, and died in Ventura County, California. He married ELIZABETH MARIA LEECH. She was born February 12, 1830 in England, and died May 19, 1902 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Children of JEHIEL WYNKOOP and ELIZABETH LEECH are:
2.     i. DANIEL J.⁹ WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1851, Pennsylvania.
3.     ii. MILCAH JANE WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1854, Pennsylvania; d. Ventura County, California.
        iii. M. F. WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1858, Pennsylvania.
        iv. FRANK M. WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1859, Pennsylvania.
        v. WILLIAM WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1861, Pennsylvania.
4.     vi. URBAN G. WYNKOOP, b. 1863, Plummer, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
        vii. GELFORD E. WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1865, Pennsylvania.

2. DANIEL J.⁹ WYNKOOP (JEHIEL FRANKLIN⁸, JOHN⁷, GERRIT⁶, GERARDUS⁵, GERRIT⁴, GARRET³, CORNELIUS EVERTSZ², EVERT¹) was born Abt. 1851 in Pennsylvania. He married ELLA E. She was born Abt. 1858 in Pennsylvania.

Children of DANIEL WYNKOOP and ELLA E. are:
        i. EDITH¹⁰ WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1878, Pennsylvania.
        ii. FRANK C. WYNKOOP, b. Abt. 1879, Pennsylvania; d. October 08, 1892, off Whitby Island, about ten miles south of Port Townsend, Washington.

3. MILCAH JANE⁹ WYNKOOP (JEHIEL FRANKLIN⁸, JOHN⁷, GERRIT⁶, GERARDUS⁵, GERRIT⁴, GARRET³, CORNELIUS EVERTSZ², EVERT¹) was born Abt. 1854 in Pennsylvania, and died in Ventura County, California. She married GEORGE LANE UNDERWOOD February 1876. He was born in New York, and died Bef. 1880 in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York.

Children of MILCAH WYNKOOP and GEORGE UNDERWOOD are:
        i. EDNA¹⁰ UNDERWOOD, b. Abt. 1878.
        ii. WILLIAM L. UNDERWOOD, b. Abt. 1879.

4. URBAN G.⁹ WYNKOOP (JEHIEL FRANKLIN⁸, JOHN⁷, GERRIT⁶, GERARDUS⁵, GERRIT⁴, GARRET³, CORNELIUS EVERTSZ², EVERT¹) was born 1863 in Plummer, Venango County, Pennsylvania. He married MITTAE F. GEORGI June 1882 in Jamestown, New York.

Children of URBAN WYNKOOP and MITTAE GEORGI are:
        i. WILLIAM¹⁰ WYNKOOP.
        ii. ALBRO G. WYNKOOP.

    For those of you who collect bottles, Urban G. Wynkoop is the man responsible for all of those Wynkoop-Vaughn drugstore bottles that keep turning up on the online auction sites.

    All my best,

    Chris