Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1950, Asan, Guam

Notes:

Girl Nearly Hit By Train In Tiburon
 What might have been a tragic accident at an unauthorized crossing on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad tracks near Tiburon Reed School resulted in minor bruises Friday when a 10-year-old student at the school tripped as she crossed the tracks, apparently unaware that a freight train was bearing down on her. Andrea Skinner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Skinner of Edgewater road in the lagoon area of Belvedere, was pushing her bicycle across the forbidden crossing toward the school when she tripped and fell. She had enough presence of mind to roll away from the rails as the train bore down on her, completely demolishing her bike, reported Belvedere Police Chief Etogene Meyer. As soon as the train could be stopped, the crew rushed back to the spot but the youngster had vanished. “In this case, we were lucky,” Meyer reported. “We know that many youngsters have been walking across this unauthorized spot rather than take a longer, safer way to school.” Meyer joined with Reed School Principal Lloyd R. O”Connor in appealing for the help of parents in forbidding children to cross the railroad tracks avospt at authorized crossings. (Source: Daily Independant Journal from San Rafael, California. Tuesday, June 3, 1958)

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]

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)

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)

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• 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]

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• 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

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

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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]

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• 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

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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: 1870, Mount Morris, Ogle, Illinois
• Census: 1880, Walnut, Dallas, Iowa

Charles married Ida Chalcedona ROBERTSON on 25 Dec 1885. Ida (daughter of George Lewis ROBERTSON and Emily JOHNSON) was born on 12 Feb 1863 in Shelbyville, Shelby, Illinois; died on 23 Jul 1942 in Dallas Center, Dallas, Iowa; was buried in Brethren Cemetery, Dallas Center, Dallas, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

LDS spells “Chelcydona”

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• Census: 1900, Davenport, Scott, Iowa
• Census: 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa

Notes:

Ludwig Emil Franz reached New York aboard the Rhaetia out of Hamburg, Germany on August 5th, 1885. His name is listed in the ship manifest (#142 | age: 22 | country: Germany | province: Prussia | city: Tilsit | occupation: Farmer). See also: GermanImmigrants1880s.com.

The SS Rhaetia was a transatlantic passenger ship on the Hamburg-American line. She was built in 1882 by Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg, Germany and was 350.1 feet long and 42.6 feet wide and weighed 3,467 tons. The steamship had a speed of 12 knots and was powered by compound engines that delivered 2000 I.H.P. to a single screw. The steel-hulled ship had three masts (the foremast rigged for sail), and one funnel. She had accommodations for 96 first class and 1100 third class passengers and a crew of 90. She was launched on November 23, 1882 and sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Havre and New York on April 4, 1883. The SS Rhaetia commenced her last voyage on this service on November 4, 1894 and in 1895 was taken by Harland & Wolff (shipbuilders) in part payment for the new ship Pennsylvania. She was then bought by J. H. Bögel of Hamburg and in 1898 was sold to the US Navy and renamed Cassius. In 1900, she became a US army transport and was renamed Sumner. On December 11, 1916 she was wrecked on Barnegat Shoals, NJ. (source)

Tilsit is the old name of Sovetsk. Before its annexion by the URSS in 1946, it was in Oriental Prussia. (see www.tilsit.com)

Ludwig Franz and his wife Margaret are mentioned in successive editions (1892 to 1922) of the Des Moines City Directory.

L. E. Franz was the first typesetter of the Iowa Volksblatt (source). He was a member of the Des Moines typographical Union No. 118 (source). In 1895 he bought a grocery store in Des Moines (source).

The Iowa Volksblatt served the community of Postville, Iowa, for many years. There was a large influx of German people in this area who could not read or write the English language but most of them could read or write German. They discussed the subject of a German newspaper with their pastor, Rev. J. Gass. In 1891 Rev. Gass began the publication of the Iowa Volksblatt. In 1895 he transferred the management of the paper to his printers, Henry Brechler and Guxtav Dietsch of Milwaukee, Wis. By this time the paper was well established. Mr. Dietsch bought his partners share in 1897 and conducted the paper alone until 1908 when he sold his plant and office building to Paul Ronneburger and Sam Hoesly of Monroe, Wis. (source).

Ludwig married Margaret JANN on 3 May 1891 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Margaret (daughter of Andreas JANN and Eva Margarethe HORN) was born on 29 Mar 1858 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa; died on 10 Dec 1946 in Newton, Jasper, Iowa; was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
• Census: 1880, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
• Census: 1900, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
• Census: 1910, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
• Census: 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
• Census: 1930, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa