Background
Wicoff, John Van Buren was born on June 9, 1878 in Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States. Son of John and Catharine Lucretia (Britton) Wicoff.
Wicoff, John Van Buren was born on June 9, 1878 in Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States. Son of John and Catharine Lucretia (Britton) Wicoff.
Preparatory student State Model School, Trenton, New Jersey, 1891-1896. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1900. Student New York Law School, 1900-1901, 1903.
Admitted to New Jersey bar, 1903. Partner, late Judge William M. Lanning, 1903-1904. Practice alone, 1904-1911.
Member Wicoff & Lanning since 1911.
President, director and counsel Broad Saint National Bank of Trenton. President, director Trenton Bone Fertilizer Company.
Counsel and director Walker-Gordon Laboratory Company. Director Trenton Savings Fund Society Chairman township committee Plainsboro Township since 1922, president of the board education, 1919-1950.
Member Middlesex Company Vocational School Board, 1914-1940.
Republican candidate for state senator from Middlesex Company, 1936. Chairman Mercer Company commission on character and fitness of bar candidates through Supreme Court appointment, 1923-1950. Federal food administrator Mercer Company, New Jersey and City of Trenton, World War I.
Member legal advisory board and member War Manpower Common for Trenton area, World World War World World War World War II
Member American, New Jersey State and Mercer Company bar associations, South.R. (former New Jersey chancellor), Society Colonial Wars (deputy general governor), Order Founders and Patriots of America (governor general 1941-1942), Holland Society New York, Saint Nicholas Society City New New York Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner). Clubs: Rotary, Trenton, Princeton (Trenton).
Married Lavinia Ely Applegate, June 8, 1904. Children: John Edward, Douglas Britton, Dorothy Applegate (Mistress West. M. Bennett), Catharine Lavinia, Evelyn Elizabeth, Marjorie Frances (Mistress East. West. Cooper), Lavinia Applegate.