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Eric LUCET

Male 1984 -  (40 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Eric LUCET was born on 9 Jun 1984 in Paris 14e, Seine, France (son of Remi LUCET and Barbara McDuffee SKINNER).

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Remi LUCET was born on 26 May 1959 in Paris 14e, Seine, France (son of Michel LUCET and Colette DEVIDAS).

    Remi married Barbara McDuffee SKINNER on 6 Nov 1982 in Paris 16e, Seine, France. Barbara (daughter of Carlton SKINNER and Jeanne Dorothy ROWE) was born on 4 Sep 1957 in San Rafael, Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Barbara McDuffee SKINNER was born on 4 Sep 1957 in San Rafael, Marin, California (daughter of Carlton SKINNER and Jeanne Dorothy ROWE).
    Children:
    1. 1. Eric LUCET was born on 9 Jun 1984 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.
    2. Marc LUCET was born on 8 Jun 1987 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.
    3. Christopher LUCET was born on 11 Sep 1990 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Michel LUCET was born on 6 Jun 1931 in Montebourg, Manche, France (son of Antoine LUCET and Léonie COUTUREAU); died on 19 Aug 1996 in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Essonne, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Michel André Marie René LUCET

    Michel married Colette DEVIDAS on 25 Feb 1956 in Dammarie-les-Lys, Seine-et-Marne, France. Colette (daughter of Roger DEVIDAS and Blanche BRIAT) was born on 2 Oct 1922 in Talence, Gironde, France; died on 24 Oct 2017 in Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Colette DEVIDAS was born on 2 Oct 1922 in Talence, Gironde, France (daughter of Roger DEVIDAS and Blanche BRIAT); died on 24 Oct 2017 in Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Blanche Marie Colette DEVIDAS
    • Census: 1931, rue Gambetta, Brantôme, Dordogne, France
    • Residence: 1933, 38 rue Gambetta, Brantôme, Dordogne, France

    Children:
    1. Christine LUCET was born on 19 Dec 1956 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.
    2. 2. Remi LUCET was born on 26 May 1959 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.
    3. Marie-Hélène LUCET was born on 30 Sep 1960 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.

  3. 6.  Carlton SKINNER was born on 8 Apr 1913 in Mayfield, Santa Clara, California (son of Macy Millmore SKINNER and Marian Weymouth JUNKINS); died on 22 Jun 2004 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1920, Julien, Dubuque, Iowa
    • Census: 1940, Washington, District of Columbia
    • Census: 1950, Asan, Guam

    Notes:

    From “Marblehead Community” — December 14, 2000.
    Marblehead man not afraid to make waves at sea
    By Stephen Decatur, Special to the reporter

     We who live in Marblehead are fortunate to be surrounded by a fascinating universe. But never mind the harbor, the boats, the wonderful architecture and the myriad other things: one of the most important aspects of this town is its people.
    Today we meet a man who has demonstrated a wide range of talents: captain of the world’s largest sailing yacht (though it had no masts at the time), friend of one of this country’s great black artists, governor of the island of Guam, resident of Paris every summer, and owner of a good measure of social conscience.
    Carlton Skinner is our man. Born in California and educated at a venerable New England prep school, he now resides in Marblehead. After college he went to work for the Wall Street Journal. Later he almost joined the Republicans in Spain fighting the fascists during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. He decided against it, however, because he disapproved of the behavior of the Communists who had infiltrated the anti-fascist forces allied against Franco. Then along came the beginnings of World War II.
     As a sailor and boat racer, Skinner’s preference was the Navy or Coast Guard. He was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Coast Guard Reserve and ordered to sea as executive officer aboard the cutter “Northland”. Just several months before the Pearl Harbor attack, the “Northland” landed a shore party on the coast of Greenland. Young Lt. Skinner was in command.
     It seems the Nazis had set up a weather station there. We were not at war with Germany at the time, of course, but the United States had very friendly and “cordial” relations with the Danish government in exile. (Denmark had been overrun by the Germans in 1940.) The weather station was captured and put out of operation with no shots fired or casualties.
     Thus ended what could be considered the first land action by U.S. forces in the coming war, although technically we were still at peace. America had by this time become extremely pro-British and extremely anti-German, even to the extent of our warships protecting Britain-bound convoys. In fact, we had several skirmishes with U-boats, including a most serious one when one of our destroyers was actually sunk.
     After a short stint as commander of an LST landing craft, Skinner became captain of the USS Sea Cloud. She was (and still is) an interesting ship, indeed. Officially a U.S. Navy ship, she was manned by the U.S. Coast Guard. Sea Cloud was owned by the cereal heiress Marjorie Post Hutton Davies and her husband, Joseph Davies, the ambassador to the Soviet Union and later to Belgium.
     The ship was the largest privately owned sailing yacht in the world. Built in Germany as a four-masted bark, she’s 316 feet long and displaces 3,600 tons. (She is still active to this day as a cruise ship in the Mediterranean.) Sea Cloud’s masts had been removed, only enough remaining for radio and communication purposes. Armaments were two 3-inch guns, depth charges and a slew of antiaircraft weapons. Her duties were weather and anti-submarine patrols between Greenland, Iceland and Bermuda, with home ports in Boston or Newfoundland.
     USS Sea Cloud was decommissioned out of the service in late 1944. The Navy fixed her up somewhat and returned the ship to Mrs. Davies, along with $750,000 to complete the restoration. The U.S. government had paid $1 per year to use the ship in the first place.
     After the war Sea Cloud passed through several owners, one of whom was Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. When he was assassinated in 1964 she was resold to a consortium which eventually converted her to a cruise ship.
     Long before boarding the Sea Cloud, Skinner had become aware of the terrible waste of manpower and talent in the Coast Guard and Navy. While aboard any ship at sea, African-American seamen were relegated to being stewards waiting upon white officers, or were mess mates or cooks. This was true no matter what a man’s potential and abilities were.
     Not only that, but the unfairness of it all bothered Skinner, now a lieutenant commander. Skinner wrote to many higher-ups in Washington and finally was allowed to experiment with some of his black crew. Men were at last allowed to study and to achieve ratings such as machinist’s mates, quartermasters, gunner’s mates, or whatever their bent may have been.
     Along the way this would mean a further integration between the black and white crews aboard ship. Skinner had “found the artificial distinction between race and color can disappear,” he said.
     One of the stewards aboard Sea Cloud was Jacob Lawrence. Skinner learned immediately that Lawrence was one of America’s great “social realist” painters. Born in 1917 in Harlem, he had already become famous with his narrative and thematic series of paintings telling of the black experience. Using representational imagery and brilliant colors, his works are reminiscent of the mural and wall paintings so popular in the 1930s. Lawrence is particularly noted for his monumental 41 paintings titled “The Migration Series” of 1940-41. Another series portrayed the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
     In keeping with Skinner’s plans to integrate his crew, Lawrence was put to painting the wartime activities of the Coast Guard. Those works served a valuable function in bringing the war to the American public. Many still survive today in museums and private collections.
     Lawrence painted only two portraits. One is of Carlton Skinner and is now at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Incidentally, Jacob Lawrence died this past June at age 82. His memorial service at the Riverside Church in New York City was attended by 2,500 people.
     So it was that the Navy and Coast Guard fully integrated their ships by 1945, due in major part to Carlton Skinner’s efforts. As a result of his leadership, Skinner was asked to be the first post-war governor of the island of Guam in the Pacific.
     Guam had at that time about 30,000 indigenous people, along with thousands of temporary American civilian and military personnel. Guam was a major wartime base in the Pacific during the war. Few problems arose during Skinner’s leadership of the transition from a military to a civil government between 1949 and 1953.
     After that, Skinner worked in the shipping business and for corporations in the eastern United States. Now retired, he appears still to have a lot of salt in his veins. These days he regularly enjoys the best of two worlds: he and his wife divide their time between Paris in the summers and Marblehead the rest of the year.

    This is one of a series of occasional articles about Marblehead people, past and present, and their relationship with the sea.


    In June 1943 Lieutenant Commander Carlton Skinner’s proposal that the U.S. Coast Guard establish an entirely integrated force eventually led to the commissioning of the first integrated ship in the armed forces, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sea Cloud. Skinner commanded a 200-man crew that included 4 African-American officers and 100 black enlisted men. Decommissioned in November 1944, this ship’s crew helped break down military segregation at sea.
    After World War II, he was a public relations officer in the Department of Interior, and was selected by the Interior Department, nominated by the Navy Department and then appointed by the President to serve as Guam’s first civilian Governor. He took the oath of office on September 17, 1949. (Picture1, Picture2 taken during the 50 years celebration).

    Belvedere Man Is Appointed to Tourist Commission By Brown
     Cartlon Skinner, of Belvedere, was named today by Governor Edmund G. Brown as chairman of the Tourism and Visitor Services Commision. The Commission, which was created by the 1964 Legislature, has a total of 15 members. Skinner was named as a general public representative to the Commission. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
     “Carlton Skinner, a man of international reputation, is highly qualified for this new post.” the Governor said. “I am proud that the State of California can attract men of his talent, knowledge and ability as our new tourism and visitor services program begins to move into high gear. With an agressive and imaginative program we can help attract new tourist spending in our state and new tourist industries that can provide a major stimulus fo our state economy.”
     A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Skinner presently heads Skinner and Company, a management consultant firm in San Francisco. He was director of the Virgin Islands Corporation and was formerly employed by the United States Maritime Commision. Skinner is a former trustee of the United Seaman’s Service.
     A former governor of Guam (1949-1953), Skinner was appointed by the late President Kennedy as senior commissioner for the United States on the South Pacific Commission. This Commission is responsible for non-selfgoverning territories in the Pacific. He was formerly executive assistant to the President of the American President Lines, and was vice president of the Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation. (source : Sausalito News, 23 Februray 1966)

    Nauru Appoints Honorary Consul
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An airline official has been named honorary consul to the United States by one of the smallest independant nations in the world – Nauru. The government of the South Pacific island Monday named Carlton Skinner, 57, as its consul in San Francisco. Skinner is board chairman here of Air Micronesia and the title was given him as a courtesy. Nauru is 1,300 miles north-east of Australia, measures eight miles square, has a population of 7,000 and is rich in phosphates. (source : Charleston Daily Mail, Tuedsay, December 7, 1971).

    Sources:
    WorId War II: The Marine Corps and the Coast Guard
    USS Sea Cloud, IX 99, Racial Integration for Naval Efficiency
    Justice on Guam Post-World War II
    The Explorers Club – Northern California Chapter (p. 3)
    Sea Cloud

    Biographical sketch of Mr. Skinner
    Carlton Skinner Appointed Governor of Guam
    Portrait of Carlton Skinner
    Guampedia - Governor Carlton Skinner
    New Coast Guard facility bears Commander Skinner’s proud name, legacy
    Is Your Ancestor on this list?
    The Long Blue Line: Cutters Sea Cloud and Hoquiam
    Flying Into The Eye of The Storm
    In memoriam Carlton Skinner (1913-2004), par Christian Coiffier
    Governor Carlton Skinner


    Carlton resided in Alexandria, VA about 1935.

    Carlton married Jeanne Dorothy ROWE on 4 May 1943 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, and was divorced after Feb 1967 in California. Jeanne (daughter of George Lewis ROWE and Marie Henrietta FRANZ) was born on 1 Apr 1917 in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa; died on 19 Apr 1988 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Golden Gate Natl. Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Jeanne Dorothy ROWE was born on 1 Apr 1917 in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa (daughter of George Lewis ROWE and Marie Henrietta FRANZ); died on 19 Apr 1988 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Golden Gate Natl. Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo, California.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1930, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1940, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
    • Census: 1950, Asan, Guam

    Notes:

    Gov. and Mrs. Carlton Skinner Of Guam and their two children Andrea and Franz. Mrs Skinner and the children have been spending the summer with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Rowe of Lakewood-Village. Also in the party were Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Holland and their children George Raymond and Stephen, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Eshelman, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Lewis, Miss Madge Lewis and the hosts’ two sons Drew and Eric. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner have taken a plane for Washington D. C. for a few weeks prior to returning to Guam (Source: Long Beach Press-Telegram, September 23, 1951)

    JUST BACK FROM a month’s stay in Mexico are Mrs. Carlton Skinner of Belvedere and her younger daughter, Barbara. They traveled with Mrs. Skinner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Rowe of Seal Beach. They visited Rosarita Beach, and stayed at Quintas Papagayos, near Ensenada. In Southern California. Mrs. Skinner visited former Belvedere residents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Boyer at Balboa, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Colmery in Pasadena. (Source: Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California. Saturday, July 30, 1966)

    Children:
    1. Franz Carlton SKINNER was born on 5 Apr 1945 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.
    2. Andrea Weymouth SKINNER was born on 12 Apr 1948 in Washington, District of Columbia; died on 19 Apr 1982 in Los Angeles, California.
    3. 3. Barbara McDuffee SKINNER was born on 4 Sep 1957 in San Rafael, Marin, California.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Antoine LUCET was born on 21 Jan 1898 in Bois-Colombes, Seine, France (son of Louis Joseph Henri LUCET and Henriette DELAROCHE); died on 13 Mar 1975 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France; was buried in Saint-Cloud, Seine, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Antoine Arthur Marie Gabriel LUCET

    Antoine married Léonie COUTUREAU on 23 Jul 1923 in Saint-Cloud, Seine, France. Léonie (daughter of Alfred-Alexandre COUTUREAU and Léonie Marie-Florine GIRARD) was born on 23 Mar 1897 in Saint-Cloud, Seine, France; died on 7 Nov 1980 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Léonie COUTUREAU was born on 23 Mar 1897 in Saint-Cloud, Seine, France (daughter of Alfred-Alexandre COUTUREAU and Léonie Marie-Florine GIRARD); died on 7 Nov 1980 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Léonie Geneviève Lucie COUTUREAU

    Children:
    1. Père Louis LUCET was born on 21 Apr 1924 in Bois-Colombes, Seine, France; died on 26 Feb 2022 in Coutances, Manche, France; was buried on 2 Mar 2022 in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    2. Dr. Philippe LUCET was born on 16 Jun 1925 in Bois-Colombes, Seine, France; died on 7 Nov 2019 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
    3. Marie LUCET was born on 1 Jul 1926 in Bois-Colombes, Seine, France; died on 27 Sep 1988 in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
    4. Jacques LUCET was born on 5 Dec 1927 in Montebourg, Manche, France; died on 30 May 2008 in Paris 14e, Seine, France.
    5. Pierre LUCET was born on 16 Dec 1929 in Montebourg, Manche, France; died on 9 Mar 2009 in Caen, Calvados, France; was buried in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    6. 4. Michel LUCET was born on 6 Jun 1931 in Montebourg, Manche, France; died on 19 Aug 1996 in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Essonne, France.
    7. Bernard LUCET was born on 17 Jul 1932 in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    8. Paul LUCET was born on 23 Aug 1933 in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    9. Marc LUCET was born on 23 Sep 1935 in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    10. Yves LUCET was born on 3 Dec 1938 in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    11. Jean-Claude LUCET was born on 6 May 1940 in Montebourg, Manche, France.
    12. Marguerite-Marie LUCET was born on 10 Jul 1942 in Montebourg, Manche, France.

  3. 10.  Roger DEVIDAS was born on 14 Sep 1898 in Caudéran, Gironde, France (son of Jean DEVIDAS and Marie Louise GIRAUDIN); died on 14 Jan 1964 in Périgueux, Dordogne, France; was buried in Balaruc-les-Bains, Hérault, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1921, 22 rue Sainte-Eugénie, Bordeaux, Gironde, France
    • Residence: 1924, Libourne, Gironde, France
    • Residence: 1925, Cubjac, Dordogne, France
    • Census: 1931, Brantôme, Dordogne, France
    • Residence: 1934, Cadillac, Gironde, France
    • Residence: 1938, Hautefort, Dordogne, France

    Roger married Blanche BRIAT on 15 Oct 1921 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Blanche (daughter of Jean BRIAT and Eugénie Ernestine DUCHÉ) was born on 1 Oct 1899 in Le Bouscat, Gironde, France; died on 14 Dec 1996 in Montpellier, Hérault, France; was buried in Balaruc-les-Bains, Hérault, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Blanche BRIAT was born on 1 Oct 1899 in Le Bouscat, Gironde, France (daughter of Jean BRIAT and Eugénie Ernestine DUCHÉ); died on 14 Dec 1996 in Montpellier, Hérault, France; was buried in Balaruc-les-Bains, Hérault, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1921, 29 allées de Tourny, Bordeaux, Gironde, France
    • Census: 1931, rue Gambetta, Brantôme, Dordogne, France

    Children:
    1. 5. Colette DEVIDAS was born on 2 Oct 1922 in Talence, Gironde, France; died on 24 Oct 2017 in Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France.
    2. Claude DEVIDAS was born on 25 Oct 1926 in Cubjac, Dordogne, France.
    3. Jacques DEVIDAS was born on 7 Nov 1929 in Brantôme, Dordogne, France; died on 1 Sep 2011 in Montpellier, Hérault, France; was buried in Balaruc-les-Bains, Hérault, France.

  5. 12.  Macy Millmore SKINNER was born on 10 Dec 1871 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (son of Dr. John SKINNER and Jane Reid TERWILLIGER); died on 9 Feb 1964 in Ohio; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake, Ohio.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
    • Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
    • Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California
    • Census: 1920, Seattle, King, Washington
    • Census: 1930, Seattle, King, Washington
    • Census: 1940, King, Washington

    Notes:

    Macy Millmore Skinner graduated from Harvard University in 1894 (PhD). He attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany, probably studying economics. He apparently became well respected, worldwide, as an economist. From 1895 to 1914, he was professor in the German Department at Stanford University (California). A scandal (see doc1, doc2, doc3, doc4) forced him to resign suddenly in August 1914. He went to China where he was an economic advisor to Sun Yat-Sen. He came back to America, and went on to the University of Washington where he was Business Professor in the Economics Department and Dean of Men.

    From Harvard College. Class of 1894, Sixth Report (May 1914) :
    MACY MILLMORE SKINNER – I spent the year 1911-1912 with my family in Germany. In the months of August and September, 1911, I represented Stanford University at the centennial festivities of the universities of Breslau, Germany, and Christiania, Norway. During my absence, I was advanced to Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Member: Modern Language Association of America, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Schwäbischer Schillerverein.

    From University of Washington – Tyee Yearbook Class of 1922 :
    Dr. Macy M. Skinner has been teaching at Canton Christian college, China, and he has sought to further trade relations with this state.

    From Harvard College. Class of 1894, The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report (1919) :
    Macy Millmore Skinner, 1894-1918
    MACY MILLMORE SKINNER – Born: Boston, Mass., December 10, 1871. Son of:John and Jeanie Reid (Terwilliger) Skinner. Prepared: Boston Latin School, Boston, Mass. Degrees: A.B. 1894; A.M. 1895; PH.D. 1897. Married: Marian Weymouth Junkins at Boston, Mass., Sept. 19, 1903. Children: Selby Millmore, born July 19, 1905; Barbara Reid, born Nov. 19, 1907; Carlton Weymouth, born April 8, 1913. Occupation: Education. Address: (home) 4673 First Ave. N.E., Seattle, Wash.;*(business) University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
     After graduation, I continued my work in the Graduate School and made my PH.D. in Semitic Languages and Literature in 1897. I went abroad on a Rogers Fellowship, and spent one year at Strassburg, and one at Berlin. On my return, finding that the prospect of making satisfactory progress in the teaching profession in my line was not a brilliant one, I changed to German, for which I had always had a strong liking. I was appointed Instructor in German at Harvard and remained there for six years, that is, until the spring of 1905, when I was called to Stanford University, Cal., as Assistant Professor of German. My family and I spent the year 1911-12 in Germany. In the months of August and September, 1911, I represented Stanford University at the centennial festivities of the universities of Beslau, Germany, and Christiania, Norway. During my absence, I was advanced to Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Having always had a strong desire to see the Orient, I gave up my position at Stanford in 1914 and sailed for China, where I spent two years in educational work. On my return in 1916, I was appointed to teach Chinese in the University of Washington, where I am at present located.
     Early in the year 1917, when it looked as though the U.S. would enter the war, I joined a Military Company of University Professors and drilled under the instruction of Major Patten, Commandant of the R.O.T.C. at the University. I assisted in the Military work of the Summer School and in the fall of 1917 was appointed Captain and Adjutant of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau (later merged into the War Service Exchange), I was in constant communication with military and other departments of the Government, and endeavored to help our students find the kind of service they were fitted for and wished to enter.
    Publications: The Termination u uni in Asyrian Verbs. Proc. Amer. Orient. Soc., 1896. – 1 Sam. IX, 24. Journ. Bibl. Lit., 1896. – Aramaisms in Isaiah, 1897. – Other articles on Semitic and German subjects.
    Clubs and societies: Modern Language Association of America, Oriental Society, China Club of Seattle.


    From the “HARVARD COLLEGE, Class of 1894, Fiftieh Anniversary Report (1944)”:
    Top-notch, versatile scholar with a Classical foundation; myriad-minded linguist, turning after his experience in China to economics and business administration with a brilliant professional career; spreader of the gospel of international comity.

    Macy Millmore Skinner, 1947
    MACY MILLMORE SKINNER was born “in the very center of Boston,” the son of John Skinner, M.D. ’56, and Jeanie Reid Terwilliger. He is now living in Seattle (2006 25th N.), and is teaching at the University of Washington. He tells his own story:
     “My father, who was a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, and my mother, who had intellectual interests and rather unusual literary talent, encouraged their four sons to seek the best educational training attainable. So three of us attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard, and one the English High School in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     “The Boston Latin School emphasised particularly the study of the classical languages, Latin and Greek, and, with its high standard of scholarship requirements, gave me habits of application and thoroughness that stood me in good stead through a long educational career, and, in particular, determined the direction my interests took at the University. There I continued with my classical studies, but added Spanish, German, and some more French to my répertoire, and later branched out into the Oriental field, taking courses in Oriental history and civilization, and several Semitic languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, and Phoenician. Eventually I secured a Ph.D. degree in Semitic languages and literature.
     “Sent abroad on a Rogers Traveling Fellowship, I spent two years in Europe, studying at Strassburg and Berlin. During this period, in addition to attending various courses in classical and modern Arabic, Persian, comparative philology, philosophy, and literature, I took the opportunity of working up an acquaintance with the older Germanic dialects, a study which I continued when, on my return, I was appointed to an instructorship in German at Harvard. During the following summers, I went back to Europe for further work at a number of universities – Heidelberg, Leipzig, Marburg, etc. Incidentally, I now added Italian to my linguistic interests.
     “In 1905, I was called to Stanford University as assistant professor of Germanic languages and literature, and in the Spring of my first year there, went through the ordeal of the California earthquake. With my family I spent my sabbatical year of 1911-1912 in Europe.
     “My Oriental interests drew me in 1914 to China, where I spent two years in educational work, incidentally devoting some time to the study of the Chinese, and to a lesser degree, the Japanese language. I returned in 1916 in order to do my part in World War I, for which I saw, that we, too, were heading. I was appointed assistant professor in the University of Washington in Seattle, where I taught German, and also introduced courses in the Chinese language. My six years of military training at the Boston Latin School stood me in good stead at this time, and I was one of a few professors chosen to train our students for service overseas. I was also made Dean of Men at the University.
     “As the war closed I weighted the possibility of securing a position at some eastern university in comparative philology, but accepted an assistant professorship in the College of Business Administration at the University of Washington, where I introduced courses of economic geography. I later headed the Department of Foreign Trade, for which my travels, my life abroad, my knowledge of economics geography, as well as of languages and customs of various peoples, seemed to fit me. In the heyday of international commerce that followed the war, I was instrumental in building up a large and flourishing department, and my students began to go out into the foreign trade field, and the United States consular service, all over the world.
     “In 1921, I was sent to China for two years as exchange professor and director of the department of business administration at Ling Nam University in Canton, being at the same time a representative of the Carnegie Foundation for World Peace. On my return I took up my work again as professor of foreign trade. A few years later I was sorely tempted to accept an offer of some Chinese government agencies to head a projected college of commerce there, but I decided to remain at my post in the United States. Having now reached the retiring age, I am on half-time, although I still conduct the foreign trade courses.
     “In the last twenty years or so I have supervised the work of one Ph.D. candidate and some forty A.M. candidates. My subject has been a popular one in the Northwest, here on the shore of the Pacific, and I have been called upon to deliver many addresses at conventions and to various civic group on topics connected with the international trade field.
     “My profoundest pleasure has been my contacts with eager minds of young men who want to go out into the great world to implement the gospel of international intercourse and amity through the interchange of material goods and services. At the college age they are still impressionable, and accept, with conviction, the social doctrine of ‛the greatest good to the greatest number.’
     “I have no particularly developed philosophy of life, except perhaps that our mission here must be to help others to get started right, and to live fruitfully and happily. There is no joy so great as that which lies in tried and true friendship, and in devotion to ideals of human service.
     “I am firmly conviced that, after the present war, the nations of the world must form a closer family unit, one for all and all for one; individual nations, politically, yet joined together in an organization that will enforce the peace, see justice done for all, and work for the prosperity and happiness of all. This is the kind of world we want our children and our children’s children to live in, and we must not fail to establish it after the work of the soldier is over, and mankind returns to the pursuits of peace.”
     Skinner was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year. He was graduated summa cum laude, with honors in Semitic Languages. He received an A.M. in 1895 and a Ph.D. in 1897. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. During World War I he was adjutant of the Inter-collegiate Intelligence Bureau (later merged into the War Service Exchange), and captain-instructor in the R.O.T.C. during the same period. He has been elected several times, and is at present president of the Pan Xenia, the International Student Foreign Trade Fraternity.
     He has written various articles on Assyrian an Hebrew linguistic problems and the study of German. His publications include: “Review of Heinrich Keiter and Tonny Keller’s Theorie und Technik des Romans un der erzählenden Dichtkunst,” Modern Language Notes, XXIV, 8 December, 1909; “Brief Notes on the Indebtednes of Spielhagen to Dickens,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, IX, 4, 1910; “Critical Survey of the Biographies of Friedrich Spielhagen,” Modern Language Notes, March, 1911; “Foreign Trade, its Growth and Importance,” Washington Purchasing Agent and Manufacturer, December, 1927; “Some Aspects of the Trade of the Pacific,” Proceedings, 6th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Collegiate Economic Conference, Vancouver, B. C., Ronald Forum, 1928; “Our Imports from Latin America, Their Significance and Their Relation to Our Export Problem”, Report of 15th National Foreign Trade Convention held at Houston, Texas, April, 1928, India House, N. Y., 1928 ; “Reports of Round Table Discussions on International Finance an International Commerce. The Pacific Area,” University of Washington Publications, July, 1928; “Report on Round Table Discussions on Population Problems,” Proceedings, Institute of International Relations, University of Southern California, December, 1928; “International Commerce and World Amity. The Pacific Area,” 1929; “Our World To-day. A Critical Survey of Economic and Commercial Conditions,” Washington Alumnus, December, 1931; “The Outlook for Inter-American Trade,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern California, 1934; “Report of Round Table Discussions on Tariffs and Trade,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, 1935; “Review of Austin A. Dowell and Oscar B. Jesness, ‘The American Farmer and the Export Market,’” American Economic Review, June, 1935; “Economic Problems of the Pacific Area,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern California, 1937; “The Trade Reciprocity Program of the United States as a Contribution to World Economic Stability,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern California, 1939; “Measures for the Improvement of Latin-American Economy,” Northwest Industry Journal, University of Washington, Seattle, December, 1941.
     Skinner is a member of the Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, of the American Economic Association, and of the Pacific Coast Economic Association. His club memberships include the Harvard Club of Seattle, the China Club of Seattle, the Alpha Kappa Psi, a national student business fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, a national college fraternity, and Pan Xenia.
     He married Marian Weymouth Junkins, Sept. 19, 1903, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have three children: Selby Millmore, born July 19, 1905; Barbara Reid (Mrs. Gilmore), born Nov. 19, 1907; and Carlton, born April 8, 1913. Both boys are in the service, Selby as a lieutenant colonel in the Barrage Balloon, Anti-aircraft Division, and Carlton as a lieutenant in the Coast Guard. There is one grandchild, Dunston Macy Skinner, son of Selby, born March 1, 1942.
     Skinner has two brothers who attended Harvard: Prescott Orde Skinner, A.B. 1896, A.M. 1897; Vernon Villiers Skinner, LL.B. 1897.


    M. M. Skinner, ’94, professor of German at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, has been appointed to represent Stanford at the centenary celebrations of the University of Breslau, Germany, in August, and of the University of Christiania, Norway, in September (Source: H. Bull. May 31, 1911)

    Source: Seattle Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957 Name: Macy M. Skinner; Arrival date: 14 Jun 1916; Port of Arrival: Seattle, Washington; Ship name:Kamakura Maru.

    Source: Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956 Name: Dr. Macy Skinner; Arrival date: 11 Sep 1904; Port of Arrival: Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

    Source: From “The Washington Alumnus” 1930 – Awakening from a ‛Fool’s Paradise’ to a Cold Reality.
        “We in America emerged from the struggle [World War I] apparently in the healthiest, wealthiest condition it had ever been our fortune to enjoy. […] A new and glorious start for higher peaks of human satisfaction and dazzling world-supremacy – and then we awoke to find it all a dream. Disillusioned we emerged from this Fool’s Paradise into a world of cold and inexorable reality, where the sight of silenced mill and workshop, haunted by the grim specter of want and the unmerited suffering of millions of fellow human beings, plunged us into the depths of sadness and despair. The evil wrought by man in half a generation cannot be repaired in a year or two. But it will be repaired in time, but only by a fundamental setting of the world’s house in order.” – Business Professor M. M. Skinner, December 1931.


    Source:
    Author: Spielhagen, Friedrich, 1829-1911.
    Title: Das Skelett im hause / von Friedrich Spielhagen ; edited with notes and vocabulary by Macy Millmore Skinner.Imprint: Boston : D.C. Heath &, c1913. Extent: v, 217 p.; 17 cm.
    Hillman Library Special Collections Nietz 5009173

    Macy married Marian Weymouth JUNKINS on 19 Sep 1903 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and was divorced on 7 Oct 1920 in Dubuque, Iowa. Marian (daughter of George Selby JUNKINS and Josephine Mary McDUFFEE) was born on 30 Jul 1880 in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 25 Apr 1966 in Belvedere, Marin, California; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Marian Weymouth JUNKINS was born on 30 Jul 1880 in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts (daughter of George Selby JUNKINS and Josephine Mary McDUFFEE); died on 25 Apr 1966 in Belvedere, Marin, California; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1900, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
    • Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California
    • Census: 1920, Julien, Dubuque, Iowa
    • Census: 1930, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Census: 1940, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

    Notes:

    Source: American Women. The Official Who’s who Among the Women of the Nation, 1935. p. 37
    BEACH, Marian Weymouth (Mrs. George W. Beach), educator; b. Lawrence, Mass., July 23, d. George Selby and Josephine (MacDuffee) Junkins; m. Macy Milmore Skinner, Sept 19, 1903; m. 2nd George Wilson Beach, July 31, 1933 ; Hus. occ. retired ; ch. Selby M. Skinner, b. July 19, 1905; Barbara (Skinner) Gilmore, b. Nov. 19, 1907: Carlton G. Skinner, b. Apr. 8. 1913. Edn. AB, Radcliffe Coll., 1903; attended Stanford Univ. ; Middlebury Coll. ; AM Columbia Univ.; 1923. Previously: Prof. of Eng. and dean of women, Dubuque Univ.; dir., Katherine Gibbs Sch., Boston, Mass. Church: Congregational. Politics: Republican. Mem. DAR ; PEO ; Nat League of Am. Pen Women. Author: School Text.

    Source : Who’s who in the East, 1942. p. 63
    BEACH, Marian Weymouth Skinner (Mrs. George W. Beach), secretarial educator; b. Lawrence, Mass.; d. George Selby nnd Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins; BA, Radcliffe; M.A., Columbia, 1922; postgrad. Stanford, 1907-08, Middlebury Coll., summer 1906, Marburg U. (Germany), summer 1904; m. Macy Milmore Skinner, Sept. 19, 1903 (div. 1920) ; children – Selby Millmore, Barbara (Mrs. Max Mandellaub), Carlton ; m. 2d. George Wilson Beach, July 31, 1933. Tchr. pub. schs. 1914-16, Dubuque (Ia.) High Sch., 1918-19 ; prof. English, dean women Dubuque U., 1919-22 ; dir. Katherine Gibbs Sch., 1925-27; founder Weylister Jr. Coll (in association with Miss Louise Scott), 1927.

    Book: The Bent Twig Author: Canfield, Dorothy. New York: Henry Holt and, 1916.
    480 p. published also under the name: Mrs. Dorothea Frances (Canfield) Fisher or Dorothy Canfield Fisher. With introduction and notes by Marian W. Skinner, New York, H. Holt and, 1946.

    Source: California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957 Name: Marian W. S. Beach; Arrival date: 11 Apr 1949; Port of Departure: Antwerp, Belgium; Ship Name: Dalerdyk.

    Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Name: Marian W. Beach; Arrival date: 14 Jul 1951; Port of departure: Liverpool, England; Ship Name: Parthia.

    Mrs. Beach Visiting Carlton Skinners After Year Abroad — Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Skinner of Belevedere have as their guest Mr. Skinner’s mother. Mrs. George Beach of Los Altos, who returned last week after a year’s residence in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Beach will join her later and they plan to take an apartment on Belvedere lagoon. The Skinners, with their children, Franz and Andrea, returned to Belvedere last summer after 3.1/4 years in Guam, where Mr. Skinner was the governor. He has left government service and is now with a steamship line. (Source: Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California, January 20, 1954, page 19)

    Mrs. Beach Returns From 3-Month Trip — Mrs. Marian Skinner Beach of Belvedere has recently returned from a three-months trip. Leaving her home in mid- March, she spent a weekend with her son, Professor Selby M. Skinner, in Cleveland and then went on to Washington, D.C. where she was a delegate to the Biennial Conference of the National League of American Pen Women. From there she flew to Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, seeing Several friends on the way. At St. Thomas she boarded a ship for a trip down the east coast of South America, stopping at Rio de Janeiro., Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Flying from there to Santiago, Chile, she sailed north to Panama, making stops at Lima, Peru; Guayaquil, Buena Ventura and Balboa. From there she flew to San Francisco via Guatamala City. Mrs. Beach is also the mother of Carlton Skinner, former Governor of Guam, now executive assistant to the President of the American President Lines. (Source: Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California, July 4, 1956, page 18)

    Children:
    1. Selby Millmore SKINNER was born on 19 Jul 1905 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 2002 in Kirtland, Lake, Ohio; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake, Ohio.
    2. Barbara Reid SKINNER was born on 19 Nov 1907 in Palo Alto, California; died on 30 Apr 1953 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts.
    3. 6. Carlton SKINNER was born on 8 Apr 1913 in Mayfield, Santa Clara, California; died on 22 Jun 2004 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

  7. 14.  George Lewis ROWE was born on 18 Jan 1889 in Miner, South Dakota (son of Rev. Charles Benton ROWE and Ida Chalcedona ROBERTSON); died on 2 Nov 1975 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1900, Waukee, Dallas, Iowa
    • Census: 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1930, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1940, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

    George married Marie Henrietta FRANZ on 19 Jun 1912 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Marie (daughter of Ludwig Emil FRANZ and Margaret JANN) was born on 18 May 1892 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa; died on 2 Sep 1977 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 15.  Marie Henrietta FRANZ was born on 18 May 1892 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa (daughter of Ludwig Emil FRANZ and Margaret JANN); died on 2 Sep 1977 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1900, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1910, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1930, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
    • Census: 1940, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

    Children:
    1. Virginia Robertson ROWE was born on 15 Aug 1913 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa; died on 26 Dec 2009 in San Francisco, California.
    2. 7. Jeanne Dorothy ROWE was born on 1 Apr 1917 in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa; died on 19 Apr 1988 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Golden Gate Natl. Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo, California.