Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California
• Census: 1920, Seattle, King, Washington
• Census: 12 Apr 1930, Seattle, King, Washington
• Census: 1940, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Census: 1950, Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois

Notes:

Selby went to China where his father (Macy) was an economic advisor to Sun Yat-sen, during the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Apparently Selby was quite bright as a teenager, and the story goes that he was teaching Trigonometry to Chinese in Chinese at the age of sixteen or seventeen. He studied in Cal’Tech and became a Physicist. He resided in Tempe, AZ about 1935. Selby Skinner served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Barrage Balloon, Anti-aircraft Division during World War II (317th Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion. Source The U.S. Army Barrage Balloon Program, by James R. Schock).

From Who’s who in the Midwest, 1958:
SKINNER, Selby M(illmore), educator, b. Boston, July 19, 1905; p. Macy Millmore and Marian (Junkins) S.; B.S., U. Wash., 1929; Ph.D., Cal. Inst. Tech., 1933; m. Charlotte L. Miller, Aug. 10, 1932; children – Dunston, Reid. Instr. Ariz. State Tchrs. Coll., 1932-33, asst. prof., 1933-35; research asso. physics Columbia, 1935-37; asst. prof. U. Chgo., 1937-46; research analyst U.S. Govt., 1947-48; dir. research services to dir. research and development AEC, Chgo., 1948-50; chief scientist Office Deputy for Research and Office Sci. Research, USAF, 1950-52; sr. research asso., prof. lectr, chemistry and chem. engring. Cast Inst. Tech., 1952-54, asso [...]

Obituary from the News-Herald (Ohio), 8 May 2002:

Private services were held for Dr. Selby M. Skinner, 96, of Kirtland.
Dr. Skinner died April 29, 2002, in Kirtland.
 Born July 19, 1905, in Boston, Mass., he lived in Baltimore, Md. before moving to Kirtland 30 years ago. He was a member of American Physics Society, American Chemical Society, American Instructors Aerospace and Astronautics, and also a member of Sigma XI, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi Sigma. Mr. Skinner served six years active duty in World War II and 21 years in the reserves. He served as the Battalion Commander of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and was a member of Barrage Balloons Board. He was also on the Atomic Energy Commission and was Director of Research and Development – Chicago Operations, and Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force. He directed programs in solid-state electronics, electro­mechanical effects of polymers, application of solid-state electronics, lubrication and adhesion, and thermodynamics of charge carrier flow. He consulted and researched properties of polymers and elastomers, electrostatic printing, instrumentation and printed circuits. He was manager of the Corporate Molecular Electronics Program at Westinghouse Defense and Space Center, also working on the Agena Docking Project, and helped develop night vision flying for aircraft during the Vietnam War, and was Senior Advisor in the Studies of Failure Mechanism and Energy Conversion in electronic materials and insulators, and was a research analyst to the United States Government. Dr. Skinner also had various professorships with several different universities. He had 38 patent disclosures, 40 publications in the fields of failure mechanisms, solid-state electronics of insulators, thermodynamics of electrical phenomena, polymer technology and energy conversion.
 Survivors are his sons, Dunston Skinner and Reid Skinner; grandchildren, Jeffrey (Monica) Skinner and Catherine Skinner; and brother, Carlton (Solange) Skinner.
 His wife, Charlotte Lahring Miller Skinner; parents, Macy M. and Marion (Junkins) Skinner; and sister, Barbara Skinner, are deceased.
 Arrangements are being handled by Blessing Cremation Center in Mentor.

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Name: Selby Skinner; Arrival Date: 15 Sep 1923; Port of Departure: Havre; Ship Name: France.

Selby married Charlotte Lahring MILLER on 10 Aug 1932 in Los Angeles, California. Charlotte (daughter of Stephen Ivan MILLER, Jr. and Florence I. DUNSTON) was born on 5 Aug 1911 in California; died on 21 Mar 1997 in Willoughby Hills, Lake, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dunston Macy SKINNER was born on 1 Mar 1942 in Dover, Delaware; died on 13 Feb 2011 in Brook Park, Cuyahoga, Ohio; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake, Ohio.
2. Reid Van SKINNER was born on 10 May 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia.

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]

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)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

From the Fredericton Head Quarters, April 2, 1856 – At the commencement of the Massachusetts Medical College, Boston, 12th ult., the degree of M.D. was conferred upon John SKINNER a native of Wickham parish (Queens Co.) We believe this gentleman was formerly a student at the Baptist Seminary in this city.

From the Saint John New Brunswick Courier, May 18, 1856 – We insert below a certificate from the celebrated Dr. Dix relative to the professional abilities of Dr. SKINNER a native of this Province who has been for some time studying in the United States and who has lately returned to exercise the duties of his profession in this city.... “Dr. John SKINNER having for nearly four years been conversant with certain branches of Surgical practice and passed one year at Tremont Medical School in this city, has for two years past been an attentive and intelligent student in my office. He has graduated with Honor in the Medical Department of Harvard University and I consider him to be fully competent in general medicine and surgery and also diseases of the eye and ear.” (signed) John H. Dix, M.D., Boston 12th April 1856.

From the Halifax Morning Chronicle Mon. July 9, 1866:
Diseases of the EYE, EAR AND HEAD.
Dr. John SKINNER,
Oculist, Aurist, &c.,
Graduate of Harvard University; Fellow of the Mass.
Medical Society, &c. (Central Office, 220 Tremont
Street, Boston, Mass.)

Dr. SKINNER informs his friends, patients, and all seeking medical treatment, that since his return from a tour in the Hospitals of Europe and the United States, he may now be consulted at 99 Argyle Street, Halifax, N.S., for a few weeks. Dr. Skinner begs to refer to – Hon. Dr. Tupper, Prof. Sec. N.S. – Hon. S. L. Tilley, Prof. Sec of N.B. – Patrick Domahoe, Esq., of the “Boston Pilot.” A. Boone, Esq. Halifax. Mrs Tebo, Marshalltown, N.S. who was blind for years; sight restored by the removal of a cataract. Mrs. McGravy, of Britain street, St. John: blind, and cured by a like and almost painless operation. Mrs. Harris, 55 Austin street, Charlestown, Mass. quite blind and deaf, with noises in her head, cured. Mrs. Widow Smith, of Buciouche, N.B. whose little girl was blind from “congenital cataract” cured by their removal; and thousands of others.

Dr. John Skinner, M.D. 1869
1043 Washington Street, Boston.
Hamilton, photographer, Boston

Source: The Medical register for New England v.1, 1877 — John Skinner, MD, 1043 Washington Street.

Source: The Harvard Medical School v. 2, Lewis Publishing, 1905. p. 1655 — John Skinner, practices in Roxbury.

Source: Medical Communications, Massachusetts Medical Society, 1913 — John Skinner, of Roxbury.

John married Jane Reid TERWILLIGER on 19 Jun 1865 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York. Jane (daughter of John Simon TERWILLIGER and Margaret REID) was born on 26 Feb 1835 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 8 Apr 1922 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York
• Census: 1870, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1920, Seattle, King, Washington

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• Census: 1850, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1860, Lebanon, York, Maine
• Census: 1870, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1880, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

From Essex, Massachusetts Biographies, 1897.

GEORGE S. JUNKINS
 George S. Junkins, a former Mayor of Lawrence, was born in North Berwick, York, Me. May 10, 1846. A son of Daniel and Louisa (Weymouth) Junkins, he is of the fifth generation in America descended from his immigrant ancestor, who came from Scotland an settled in old York, Me. From York the family subsequently moved to Berwick, Me. Jotham Junkins, the grandfather of George S., born in 1791, was a farmer in North Berwick. He married a Miss Ingraham, of Portland, Me., who bore him one son and three daughters.
 Daniel Junkins, born in North Berwick in 1821, who as a meat dealer in South Berwick, died in his native town in 1893. His first wife, Louisa, also a native of North Berwick, died in 1855, aged thirty-seven. She was the mother of five children, namely : Mary Ellen, who died at the age of seventeen; Oscar W., who became a sea captain, and whose residence is in Lawrence; Daniel E., now a farmer of Buxton, Me. ; George S., the subject of this sketch ; and Sarah A., who became the wife of Charles H. Lindsay, and died without issue in 1895.

The maiden name of Daniel Junkins’s second wife, who came from Smithfield, was Olive Merrill. A most estimable lady, she has been a kind mother to the orphaned children. At present she is living in Somersworth, N.H. Her children by her late husband are : Louise, the wife of Alvin H. Stevens, of Dover, N.H. ; Mary, the wife of Frank Malory, of Somersworth, N.H. ; and Frank, a resident of Lebanon, Me.
 George S. Junkins acquired his early education in the common schools of South Berwick and Lebanon. At the age of sixteen he wen to work in a flannel factory in North Berwick, where he was employed for six years. He then opened a meat market in Lawrence in company with A. I. Mellen. Since that time the firm has established an extensive and prosperous business. Mr. Junkins has ranked prominently among the business menn of Lawrence for over thirty years. He is active and popular among the Lawrence Republicans. In 1890 he was in the Common Council, in 1891 and 1893 he was member of the Board of Aldermen, and since 1893 he has been serving on the Water Board, of which at present he is the President. Elected Mayor in 1896 an re-elected in 1897, he proved a progressive and able chief magistrate.
 Mr. Junkins was married April 2, 1870, to Josie M. McDuffee, of this city, a daughter of Charles and Sarah (Hopkinson) McDuffee. Some time ago, Mr. McDuffee, who was a carpenter and builder, fell from a building, and died one week after from the injuries he then received, aged fifty-nine years. His wife had died at the age of twenty-nine, leaving Josie M., her only child. Mr. and Mrs. Junkins have three children : Bertha L., an accomplished young lady, who, having completed the classical course in Boston University, graduated therefrom June 1, 1898 ; Helen M., who is a teacher in Dr. Sargent’s School of Physical Culture in Cambridge, Mass. ; and Marion W., now sixteen years of age, who graduated in June, 1898, from the Lawrence High School. Mr. Junkins is a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church and a member of several fraternal organizations. The family resides in a handsome home at 6 Greene Street, which Mr. Junkins purchased in February, 1875.

Republicans Select George S. Junkins
 LAWRENCE, Nov 18 — The republican mayoralty and aldermanic conventions tonight made the following nominations: For mayer, George S. Junkins; for aldermen, ward 1, E. H. Humphrey; ward 2, George H. Goldsmith; ward 3, A. H. Robinson; ward 4, Ira D. Blandin; ward 5, S. Byron Bodwell; ward 6, John Haigh. (Source: Boston Daily Globe, Nov. 19, 1895).

George married Josephine Mary McDUFFEE on 2 Apr 1870 in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. Josephine (daughter of Charles McDUFFEE and Sarah Clay HOPKINSON) was born on 2 Feb 1848 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire; died on 6 Aug 1913 in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1855, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1860, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1865, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1870, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1880, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California

Notes:

From The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 89, page 205 :
Mrs. Josephine Mcduffee Junkins.
DAR ID Number: 88646
Born in Rochester, N. H.
Wife of George S. Junkins.
Descendant of James McDuffee, Caleb Hopkinson, Solomon Lombard, and Calvin Lombard, as follows:
1. Charles McDuffee (1825-86) m. 1st 1846 Sarah C. Hopkinson (1827-54).
2. James McDuffee (1796-1868) m. 1821 Hannah Ham (1801-90); Moses Hopkinson (1796-1881) m. 1821 Elizabeth Hamlin (1796-1870).
3. Jacob McDuffee (1770-1848) m. 1794 Abigail Flagg (1774-1870); Stephen Hopkinson (b. 1771) m. Rachel Lombard (b. 1773).
4. James McDuffee m. 1762 Mercy Young; Caleb Hopkinson m. 1770 Sarah Clay Stafford (b. 1745); Calvin Lombard m. Martha Grant.
5. Solomon Lombard m. 1724 Sarah Purington.
— James McDuffee (1726-1804) served on the Committee of Safety from Rochester, N. H., where he was born and died.
— Caleb Hopkinson (1747-1841) served several enlistments and was one of Gates’ bodyguard at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was born in Bradford, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.
— Solomon Lombard (1702-81) was chairman of the Committee of Safety, 1776, served in the General Court and as Judge of Cumberland County. He died in Gorham, Me.
— Calvin Lombard (1748-1808) served as a volunteer with the Gorham minute men. He was born in Truro, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.

From The Kneeland Miscellany, Compiled by Bertha J. and Frank E. Kneeland, 1914-1917. Page 206.
George Selby and Mary Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins [were] born 10, 1846 and February 12, 1848, at South Berwick, Maine, and Rochester, New Hampshire, respectively. They were married at Lawrence, Mass., April 12, 1870 (4/2/70) and, with the exception of the first year of their married life during which Mr. Junkins was in charge of a woolen factory at North Berwick, Me., lived continuously in that city, of which he was twice Mayor, up to the time of his death on November 12, 1900. Some three years after his death and after her daughters Helen and Marian had graduated from the Boston University School of Medecine and Radcliffe College respectively in 1903 (1903), Mrs. Junkins removed with her daughter Helen to Lowell, Mass, where they resided upt to the time of the latter’s marriage to Edward J. Beach at her sister Marian’s home on the grounds of Leland Stanford, Jr. University at Palo Alto, California, in April 1909.
 Having previously sold her home on Tower Hill, Lawrence, (110 Bodwell street), Mrs. Junkins thereafter became a considerable traveller, making frequent visits to her daughters in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dubuque, Iowa, and Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California, taking occasion to see such natural wonders as The Yellowstone, The Yosemite, and The Grand Canyon of Arizona en route, a tour of Alaska in 1911, and one of Europe extending through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium, in 1912. She last visited her eldest daughter at Brooklyn on her return from Europe in September, 1912, at which time she took the pictures of her grand-daughter Helen seated in her baby chairs and bath-tub on the roof of the apartment house at 128 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, with the tower of the Christian Science Church accross the way in the background, which appear in Helen’s baby album. Leaving for Dubuque on this occasion, Mrs. Junkins made the trip up the Hudson on one of the Day Line steamers and opined that, except for the castles, the real Rhine which she had traversed a few weeks previously had nothing on its American prototype! Shortly after her youngest daughter Marian’s third child (Carlton Skinner) was born at the hospital in Palo Alto, California, in April, 1913, Mrs. Junkins herself was forced to become a patient in the same hospital where she underwent two operations for the stomach trouble from which she had long been a sufferer! She rallied sufficiently to make the trip to Dubuque, Iowa, in the early Summer of 1913, but suffered a relapse shortly after her arrival and died in the hospital to which she had been removed in Dubuque on August 6, 1913. Both she and her husband sleep in the lot which he had provided in the Extension to Bellevue Cemetery at Lawrence, Mass. Prior to his election to the Mayoralty, Mr. Junkins had been in the Meat and Provision business. After his second term as Mayor had expired he became associated with the Stanley Grain Company of Lawrence as its Treasurer! It is now owned and conducted by George A. Stanley, whose father was the original founder of the business!

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• Census: 1851, Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick

Notes:

From Fifty Years with the Baptist Ministers and Churches of the Maritime Provinces (by. Rev. I. E. Bill), p. 403:

   Joseph C. SKINNER was born at Parrsboro, N.S., in the year 1800, and was early instructed by his godly mother, the late Mrs. Sarah Skinner, in the principles and obligations of the Christian faith. When about twenty years of age he professed religion, and was baptized by the late Edward Manning. He was then regarded as a young man of more than ordinary promise. He removed to New Brunswick in 1825, and feeling a deep interest in the progress of education, he devoted several years of his life to the instruction of the young. In 1836 he was ordained to the pastorate of what was then designated the First Wickham Church. He faithfully fulfilled the duties of his office for many years; and although his pastoral connection nominally ceased some time prior to his death, yet virtually he continued to preside over these people and to watch for their souls as one that must give an account, until removed to join the Church triumphant in the heaves. He departed this life in the sixty-first year of his age, March 23, 1860, in full assurance of the faith he had so long proclaimed as the only ground of the sinner’s hope. He was interred in the churchyard surronding the house in which he was ordained, in the presence of a large concourse of people. Rev. David Crandall preached his funeral sermon from 2 Timothy, 4: 7, 8; “I have fought the good fight”, etc.
 Our departed Brother Skinner stood pre-eminent among his brethren as wise in counsel, evangelical in doctrine, an spotless in life. It was his happiness to witness several interesting revivals of religion during his pastorate, and to induct many valuable members in to the fellowship of the Church; and though his labours on earth have terminated, yet the instructions which he gave, his meek and pure example, and the composure and confidence with which he passed through the valley of death, will continue to give forth utterances distinct and solemn, calling upon the people of Cambridge to “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end ot that man in peace.”

“The Early Baptist of Cambridge Parish, Queens, New Brunswick”, by Ruby Cusack

   With Christmas being only four days away, Cliff and I were getting more and more excited by the hour. Mum had made the fruit cakes well in advance. The shelves in the back pantry were lined with tin containers filled with all sorts of cakes, squares, cookies and pies. I was so tempted to sneak in there for a feed of honey bars but I didn’t want to get in trouble at this time of the year.
 Gord had spent several hours searching the upper pasture for the perfectly shaped fir tree and now it was leaning against the wall in the livingroom. Dad and Gramp took on the task of nailing the board to the bottom, then turning it round and round to find the best side before anchoring it to the window casing with heavy twine. While they were doing this, the rest of us set to work with darn needles and heavy thread to string the coloured popcorn.
 In no time at all, the adults began to chat about the traditions of the Christmases of the past and the church services they had attended as youngsters, which led into a long discussion concerning the members of the families who gathered to worship in the communities where they grew up.
 In 1941, the Reverend Walter R. Greenwood felt that the Church’s traditions were the most valuable possession and should be carefully preserved. It was this thought that prompted his writing of “The Early Baptist of Cambridge Parish, Queens, New Brunswick”. And in so doing he provided information on the members of many families.
 Chapter one deals with the church at Jemseg. The first family being the Wades who migrated in the mid 1800’s to Ontario but was still represented in the community through relationship with Percy McLean.
 Among the names of the Charter member on the rolls of the Waterborough Church are,
– Elijah Estabrooks (Teaching Elder),
– Joseph Estabrooks (Deacon), Ebenezer Estabrooks and John Estabrooks. These are all sons of Sergeant Elijah Estabrooks from whom all the Estabrooks on the St. John River are descended.
– The Rev. Francis Pickle was sent by the Domestic Missionary Society to labor on Grand Lake. There were twelve baptized under his ministry at Cumberland Bay in February and March of 1827.
– David Chase, who was a brother of Rev. Skinner’s wife, pursued his ministry successfully for seven years until, as a young man of thirty-six died of tuberculosis. Three months later his wife Jane died of the same disease.
– William Springer, the Loyalist, who came from Wilmington, Delaware married Sarah Thurston,
– Margaret, the daughter of Squire John Robertson, was the wife of George Wilson and moved to Salmon River.
– John J. Camp was a grandson of Abiathar Camp, the Loyalist.
 The Birthday of the Mill Cove Church could be considered as being on the 26th of June 1825 for it was then that John Branscomb, Ann McLean, Ann Elsworth and Mary Ferris were baptized. John Branscomb was the son of Arthur Branscomb and married Mary Wiggins. Ann McLean married David McIntosh and lived in Mill Cove. Ann Elsworth was a daughter of William Elsworth. Her brother, Hanford, married Sarah Ferris, a daughter of George Ferris, the Loyalist. Mary Ferris was a daughter of John and Mary Ferris. The upper storey of their stone house was used to hold church services.
– William Sharp, Eliza Clark, Jeremiah Oakley, Lucy Gidney and Mrs. David Nevers were the first mentioned of Baptist people living at Lower Jemseg and vicinity as found in the records of Canning Baptist Church during the years 1830-1833.

– In 1836 Joseph C. Skinner, who had come to the community as a teacher in 1833, became the first resident pastor of the church at MacDonald’s Corner. His ministry here lasted until his death in 1860. Elder Skinner was not a robust man but he and his wife were persons of superior mentality. Of their family, five sons became medical doctors in the United States. One of the daughters, Betsy Ann, married Amos Straight and another daughter married Robert Coes.
 Biographical information is provided on the forty-one names that were listed on the roll in 1840. One of the clerks and later made a deacon in 1843, at the MacDonald’s Corner Church was Anthony Flower, who was born in 1792 at Old Gravel Lane, Radclife Highway, London, England. As a young boy he attended the Royal Academy School and was a roommate with Joseph William Turner who became one of the leading landscapes painters of all times. His wife, Mary, was the daughter of James Green. I might add, that today, Anthony Flower is a well known New Brunswick artist. His home has been moved to the village of Cambridge-Narrows. It will be restored to appear as it did during Flower’s life and will be opened in 2005 as a House Museum, dedicated to the life and times of Anthony Flower.
– Rebecca Carpenter, the daughter of Ephraim and Ann Carpenter, married Richard Ryder and lived her married life in Saint John.
 In the evening of December 5th, 1839, a meeting was held at Mr. James Hendry’s to organize a church to be called the second Baptist Church of Wickham. This entry was found in the church records concerning the beginnings of organized church life at Lower Cambridge. The author states that in 1825, thirteen people met in Alexander B. MacDonald’s barn and were duly constituted into the First Baptist Church in Wickham.
 A Baptist Church was organized at Cambridge in the Meeting House near Mr. Amos S. Corey’s on November 5th, 1855... in all 21 members coming into the church fellowship as a distinct church. In 1856 twenty-eight were added to the church. Surnames of the members of this church include, Corey, Hetherington, Cottle, Wilson, Hughes, Belyea, Dykeman, Blizard, Akerley, Robertson, Black, White, Chase, Little, Wood, Straight, Todd, and Pierce. Here again, a review is given of the families.
 — “The Early Baptist of Cambridge Parish, Queens, New Brunswick” by the Reverend Walter R. Greenwood, a 1941, eighty page publication provides a wealth of genealogical information concerning the families who attended the churches in the area. The book is available at the Fredericton Library and the Legislative Library and possibly at other research institutions within New Brunswick.

Source: “Vital Statistics From New Brunswick (Canada) Newspapers” Vol. 15:
– 496 m. Wednesday 13th inst., at house of bride’s father, by Rev. J. SKINNER, Joseph A. Denniston of Scotland / Miss Hannah Appleby of Wickham parish (Queens Co.) 23 November 1850 NBC
– 3059 m. At residence of bride’s father, Wickham (Queens Co.) 14th Feb., by Rev. J.C. SKINNER, William Appleby / Miss Isabella Akerley both of that place. 1 March 1856 NBC

Source: New Brunswick – Canada / Index To Probate Records
SKINNER Joseph C. 1860 Cambridge

Source:
Aaron Jenkins was born on 15 Mar 1826 in Johnston, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada. He died on 27 Jun 1909 in Codys, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada. He has reference number 14. Married by Rev. JOSEPH SKINNER.

Joseph married Eliza A. CHASE on 28 Mar 1821 in Baptist, Cornwallis Twp, Kings, Nova Scotia. Eliza (daughter of William CHASE and Sarah JESS) was born on 22 Jun 1803 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in 1888 in Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, McDonald Corner, Queens, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1851, Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick

Notes:

Source : Skinner of Hartford. Entries: 8403 Updated 2006-04-03 01:43:04 UTC (Mon). Contact: Wesley Skinner.

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• Census: 1850, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York
• Census: 1855, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York
• Census: 1860, Clay, Onondaga, New York

John married Margaret REID on 6 Dec 1823 in New Scotland, Albany, New York. Margaret was born about 1803; died on 11 Dec 1838 in Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1840, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1850, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1860, Lebanon, York, Maine
• Census: 1870, Lebanon, York, Maine

Notes:

Before 1860 he moved to Lebanon, Maine where he was a farmer.

Daniel married Louisa Hartwell WEYMOUTH on 17 Mar 1838 in North Berwick, York, Maine. Louisa was born on 1 Feb 1817 in Maine; died on 25 May 1854 in North Berwick, York, Maine; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, North Berwick, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, North Berwick, York, Maine

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• Census: 1855, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1860, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1865, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts

Charles married Sarah Clay HOPKINSON on 21 Dec 1846 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire. Sarah (daughter of Moses HOPKINSON and Elizabeth HAMLIN) was born on 23 Jul 1827 in Buxton, York, Maine; died on 4 Sep 1854 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire; was buried in 1854 in Old Cemetery, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]