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at Baltimore. In 1854 he received the thanks 

 of Congress, and the presentation of a sword, 

 for his services in Mexico. In the same month 

 he was transferred to the Department of the 

 Pacific. In 1856 he put an end to Indian dis- 

 turbances in Washington and Oregon Terri- 

 tories, in a campaign of three months. At the 

 close of General Pierce's Administration he 

 was recalled to the Department of the East, 

 with his headquarters in New York. When 

 civil war broke out in 1860, he hastened to 

 offer his services to the Government, and after 

 the attack on Fort Sumter he went to New 

 York to organize, equip, and send to Washing- 

 ton the first regiment of volunteers. He took 

 the responsibility of reenforcing Colonel Dimick 

 at Fortress Monroe, thus saving that post from 

 seizure by the Confederates. On the 1st of 

 May he was ordered to return to Troy. In 

 August he was sent to Fortress Monroe as 

 commander of the Department of Yirginia, 

 and from that port led an expedition which 

 occupied Norfolk, May 10, 1862. On the 2d 

 of June he was transferred to the command of 

 the Middle Department, with his headquarters 

 at Baltimore. He was promoted to be full 

 Major-General in the Regular Army, May 16, 

 1862. At the close of the war he was re- 

 tired from active service, and subsequently 

 resided in Troy. General Wool was a rigid 

 disciplinarian, and as an organizer of troops 

 had no superior in the service. In private life 

 he was an unostentatious citizen, a cordial 

 neighbor, a genial, courteous, and exemplary 

 Christian gentleman. He was much attached 

 to Troy, which had been his home except 

 when duty called him elsewhere, from his 

 youth, and left a considerable bequest to the 

 Kensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and smaller 

 sums to the Troy Orphan Asylum, the Day 

 Home, the Catholic Orphan Asylum, and Wil- 

 liams College. 



WYCKOFF, Rev. ISAAC NEWTON, D. D., a 

 clergyman of the reformed (Dutch) Church, 

 eminent for scholarship, executive ability, and 

 goodness, borninHillsborough, Somerset Coun- 

 ty, N. J., August 29, 1V92; died in Albany, 

 March 28, 1869. He was fitted for college 

 under the care and instruction of the late 

 Theodore Frelinghuysen and his brother Fred- 

 erick, and subsequently at the Somerville (N. 

 J.) Academy. The death of his father, just 



before he entered college, left him without the 

 means of support, but by diligent labor, both 

 in teaching and other pursuits, he was enabled 

 to enter Rutgers College in an advanced stand- 

 ing in 1810, and graduated with honor in 

 1812. He taught for two years after his grad- 

 uation to pay the debts he had incurred for 

 his education, one year in the Franklin Street 

 Commercial Academy, New York City, and 

 one year in Somerville, N. J. During this 



Eeriod he was in doubt in regard to his pro- 

 jssion, and read medical works, and studied 

 law, during his intervals of leisure. But in 

 1814 his religious convictions became more 

 decided, and he determined to enter the min- 

 istry. He accordingly removed to New Bruns- 

 wick, where he became principal of the Young 

 Ladies' Academy, prosecuting his theological 

 studies at the same time in the seminary. In 

 1817 he graduated from the Theological Semi- 

 nary, and was licensed to preach. On the 1st 

 of January, 1818, he was ordained and settled 

 as pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church 

 in Catskill, N. Y. Here he remained for more 

 than eighteen years, a very successful and 

 laborious pastor. In November, 1836, he 

 accepted a call to the pastorate of the Second 

 Reformed (Dutch) Church in Albany, N. Y. 

 Here he labored diligently for more than 

 thirty years, and received a thousand com- 

 municants into his church. He was an able, 

 interesting, and at times eloquent, preacher, 

 and preeminently successful and beloved as a 

 pastor, counsellor, and friend. In all the 

 benevolent and charitable enterprises of the 

 city he was specially active and earnest, and 

 the numerous Hollanders who emigrated to 

 this country, and especially to the vicinity of 

 Albany, from 1845 to 1865, found him a vol- 

 unteer commissioner of immigration, untiring 

 in his zeal and labors for their welfare. He 

 was a director or manager in most of, the 

 great national benevolent societies, and always 

 faithful in the discharge of his duties. Dr. 

 Wyckoff, among his other abundant labors, 

 found considerable time for literary work. 

 The number of his published occasional ser- 

 mons, lectures, and addresses, was large, and 

 he was a frequent and valuable contributor to 

 Rev. Dr. Sprague's " Annals of the American 

 Pulpit," as well as to several religious periodi- 

 cals. 



