. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . - n- uiC^ftij NICHOLAS WYCKOFF—MIDDLE VILLAGE. 391 Morrison in 1853. In 1854 Messrs. Livermore took pos-session and began making starch from damaged wheatrecovered from defective canal boats. Thus a largeamount of grain, formerly nearly worthless, was madevaluable. The works were burned in 1868 and rebuiltthe following year. Four runs of stones are now usedfor grinding merchantable wheat, and from 175 to 200barrels of starch are produced weekly of standardquality. Samuel G. M
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . - n- uiC^ftij NICHOLAS WYCKOFF—MIDDLE VILLAGE. 391 Morrison in 1853. In 1854 Messrs. Livermore took pos-session and began making starch from damaged wheatrecovered from defective canal boats. Thus a largeamount of grain, formerly nearly worthless, was madevaluable. The works were burned in 1868 and rebuiltthe following year. Four runs of stones are now usedfor grinding merchantable wheat, and from 175 to 200barrels of starch are produced weekly of standardquality. Samuel G. Morrison is general superintendentat the works. In 1854 John Parr and John Barnett began the manu-facture of wheat starch at East Williamsburgh. Mr. Bar-nett bought his partners interest, and in 1859 E. H. became a partner in the firm of John Barnett &Co. They have facilities for manufacturing 100 barrelsof starch per week. NICHOLAS WVCKOFF. Nicholas Wyckoff was born in Bushwick (now inBrooklyn), October 30th 1799. The Wyckoff homestead,where he now lives, was in the possession of his ances-tors pri
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