From
History of the Baptists, p. 501:
SKINNER, B.A., Rev. I. J., died March, 1896; aged 72 years; born in Kings, N.S.; graduated from Acadia, 1855; ordained at Port Medway, 1855; was pastor at Bridge water, Chester, N.S.; Alma and Havelock, N.B.; Tryon, Bedeque and Montague, P.E.I., for about thirthy-five years. He was a good man, full of faith and the Holy Ghost; gently beloved by all who knew him. He was an earnest temperance worker.
History of the Baptists, p. 756:
Rev. I. J. SKINNER reports ministerial labour and pastoral work performed by him at Port Medway, Bridgewater, New Cornwall, Chelsear, Corkum Settlement, St. Margaret’s Bay, Little River, Chester, and Lunenburg. The reviving power of the Spirit was experienced more or less in most of these places so that during the twenty-five years of his ministry he has baptized in all three hundred and sixty-five persons.
From
The Diary of Adolphus Gaetz, p. 113:
Rev. Isaac Judson Skinner (1825-1896) was born at Conrwallis, N.S. and died at Liverpool, N.S. He was graduated at Acadia University in 1855. He was a Baptist minister and had pastorates at Port Medway and Chester, N.S., Alma and Hopewell, N.B., and Bedeque and Tryon, P.E.I. He married (1) a daughter of William Troop of Nictaux, N.S. and (2) Mary, daughter of Saumel Freeman, of Milton N.S.
Isaac married Mary A. FREEMAN on 16 Dec 1863 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia. Mary was born on 5 Jun 1836 in Milton, Queens, Nova Scotia; died on 13 Dec 1913 in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]