PETER B. WYCKOFF, M.D. OF NEW YORK Perhaps no fact has been more interesting to the writer than the large number of college bred and professionally bred men who are to-day to be found in active business. It happens frequently that they are men who, while thoroughly successful in their professional careers, have been allured by brighter prospects to also participate in the affairs of life. Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff is a singularly happy illustration. Thoroughly welltrained at Genesee, Amherst and Bellevue; he was for ten years, until very recently, a member of the firm of Munroe & Wyckoff. Born at Oswaco Lake, near Auburn, N. Y., he was prepared for college at Cazenovia and Lima, N. Y., seminaries; took his Freshman and Sophomore years at Genesee College, now better known as the Syracuse University, and his Junior and Senior years at Amherst College, where he was graduated in 1868 with the degree of A.B. Taking the full course at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, he entered the medical profession in 1870, and held various medical positions in the municipal departments for the next ten years. Ambulance Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital in 1870-71; he was resident physician to the Nursery and Children's Hospital at Randall's Island in 1871-72; Examining Physician to the Department of Public Charities and Corrections from 1872 to 1873; District Physician to 1874, Assistant Sanitary Inspector to the Health Department in New York from 1874 to 1880. He was Vice-President of his class at Amherst, and member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Life member of the Psi Upsilon Club in New York, he belongs also to the Metropolitan, St. Nicholas and Riding Clubs, and to the Country Club of Westchester County. He has retained his membership in the Medical Society, is a director of various business corporations, and a member of the American Numismatic and Archaeological, and Holland Societies of New York. Dr. Wyckoff, in 1875, married Miss Cora Dillon, daughter of Sidney Dillon, and his domestic life has been of the happiest. |