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• Census: 1910, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri
• Census: 1920, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri
• Military Service: 15 Feb 1942, Berkeley, Saint Louis, Missouri

Notes:

DIVORCE DECREES GRANTED
Evelyn Skinner from Armour Skinner
Source: The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Mo.), Jan 13, 1938

Armour married Isabelle C. DAVIDSON on 17 Apr 1922 in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, and was divorced on 26 Apr 1928 in Kent, Michigan. Isabelle (daughter of Chester Lee DAVIDSON and Hattie EVANS) was born on 22 Dec 1902 in Illinois; died on 29 Jul 1969 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Virden Cemetery, Virden, Macoupin, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna SKINNER was born about 1923; died before 1928.

Armour married Joyce Olive CASEY on 3 Sep 1938 in Saint Louis, Missouri, and was divorced on 17 Apr 1946 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Joyce was born on 14 Sep 1914 in Ohio, Saint Clair, Missouri; died on 17 Jun 2001. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Armour married Theresa R. PRATOLA after 1946. Theresa (daughter of Matteo PRATOLA and Maria Michelina Caterina POPPA) was born on 11 Sep 1909 in Greci, Avellino, Italy; died in 2000 in Saint Charles, Missouri; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Saint Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Phillip Chase SKINNER was born on 15 Feb 1947 in Missouri.

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• Census: 1880, Merritt, Morgan, Illinois
• Residence: 1902, Joplin, Jasper, Missouri
• Residence: 1904, St Louis, Missouri
• Census: 1910, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri
• Census: 1920, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri

Notes:

Source: The Biographical Record of Jasper County Missouri, by Hon. Malcolm G. McGregor, published 1901.

FRITZ E. SKINNER, M. D.
 Dr. Fritz E. Skinner, who is successfully engaged in the practice of medicine in Joplin, is among the more recent arrivals, but already his skill and professional knowledge have won, recognition in a liberal and constantly growing patronage. He is a native of Illinois, his birth having occurred near Jacksonville, Morgan county. The Skinner family were from New Brunswick, and the father of our subject, Dr. B. H. Skinner, was born in Queens, New Brunswick. He became the best known and most prominent physician of Jacksonville, where he located about 1880, and where for a number of years he enjoyed a very extensive and profitable patronage. He married Miss Eliza Stewart, a daughter of Dr. H. M. Stewart, who represented an old Kentucky family. Not only the maternal grandfather and the father of our subject were physicians, but four of his uncles also engaged in the practice of medicine. Perhaps an inherited tendency had something to do with the boy’s choice of a profession, but even so, an inherited tendency is only a latent power which must feel the awakening touch of effort to be of any avail in the active affairs of life. He pursued his early education in the public schools of his native city and afterward entered Illinois College, of Jacksonville, where his literary course was completed. Resolving to make the practice of medicine his life work, his reading was for a time pursued under the direction of his father and later he attended the Marion Sims College, of St. Louis, where he was graduated. with the class of 1892. He then returned to Jacksonville, where he engaged in practice and for a time was also a medical practitioner of St. Louis. In that city in 1898 he pursued a post-graduate course in the Barnes College, and then came to Joplin, where he has since made his home. His college training and practical experience well qualified him to take up his work here, and he soon demonstrated his ability to successfully cope with the intricate problems concerning disease and health. He served as city physician here for one year, was vice-president of the County Medical Society, in which he still retains membership, and is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Joplin.
 In May, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Skinner and Miss Ella B. Burge, of that city, a most estimable lady, whose hospitable home is a favorite resort with the many friends she has made since coming to Joplin. In his political views the Doctor is a Republican and is deeply interested in the growth and success of the party, although he takes no part in its work, owing to the demands of his profession upon his time and attention. Socially he is a member of Mineral Lodge, No. 330, I. 0. 0. F., of Joplin; also a medical examiner of the Modern Woodmen of America, of which he is an active member. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian. He is always courteous, kindly and affable, and those who know him personally have for him warm regard.

From the Scranton Tribune, Scranton, Pa., Friday morning, October 8, 1897.
“Fate of Nora Harris.” Coroner’s Jury Decides That She Was Murdered.
Jacksonville, Ill., Oct. 7. – Miss Nora Harris, who died Sept. 11, as the reported result of a buggy accident, was disinterred yesterday, and, according to the verdict of the coroner’s jury, was found to have been murdered.
Dr. Fritz Skinner is charged with causing her death by a criminal operation, and Adam Large, her stepfather, and William Hobson, her lover, are declared accessories. Warrants are out for the three men, but they have disappeared.

From The Minneapolis Journal, October 13, 1897.
“One More Unfortunate.”
St. Louis, Oct. 12. – Sheriff Hardin COX of Morgan county reported here this forenoon having in custody Adam LARGE and William HOBSON, against whom warrants are out charging them with murder of Nora HARRIS, stepdaughter of the former and sweetheart of the other man. The prisoners, who were captured in Van Buren, Ark., were taken to Jacksonville, arriving there at noon. A doctor is also under arrest at Jacksonville as an accomplice.

From The Decatur Daily Review, December 3, 1897.
“Turns State’s Evidence. – Norra Harris’ Stepfather Testifies Against Accomplices.”
Jacksonville, Ill., Dec. 2. – This morning in the trial of Dr. Skinner with Large and Hobson for causing the death of Nora Harris, Large, the stepfather of the girl, turned state’s evidence and caused the other prisonners to turn pale with fear. The trial bids fair to fasten the guilt of killing an innocent girl on Hobson and Skinner, thouth there seems to be little doubt that her mother, Mrs. Large, and stepfather were accessory. The affair has caused great excitement and public feeling is very strong.

Fritz married Ella Belle BURGE in May 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Ella (daughter of John BURGE and Sarah King NEIL) was born on 13 Dec 1870 in Black River Falls, Jackson, Wisconsin; died on 8 Jan 1916 in De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri; was buried in City Cemetery, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1910, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri

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• Census: 1850, Exeter, Scott, Illinois
• Census: 1865, Bethel, Morgan, Illinois
• Census: 1880, Merritt, Morgan, Illinois

Notes:

Source: Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, 1897. – Bradford H. Skinner was born in Queen’s, New Brunswick, May 15, 1833. In 1849 he moved to Illinois, and in 1853 he went across the plains to California. Two years later he returned and took a course in medicine at Rush College. In 1859 he entered the law office of Lincoln & Herndon. at Springfield, Ill. After being admitted to the bar he traveled a year for a fire insurance company, and then came to Ann Arbor and graduated in the law class of 1863. The disturbed condition of the times again turned him to medicine, and after taking another course in medicine at St. Louis he again took up its practice.

Bradford Skinner is counted in the Illinois 1850 census [Skinner Bradford ; age: 20; occup: Laborer ; birthplace: New Brunswick] (Source).

Source: The Illinois State medical register. 1874/75, p. 154 – Skinner, B. H., Merritt, Scott Co. St. Louis Med. Coll., 1870.

Source: The Annual medical directory of regular physicians in the State of Illinois v.2, 1878, p. 26 – Skinner, B. H. : Univ. Mich., ’63. He also graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, ’63.

Source: The Michigan University book, 1844-1880, p. 296 – Skinner, Bradford Hewlett, (p. 217). Student in Rush Med. Coll., ’57-8; practiced Med. in Chicago, ’58-9: admitted to the Bar at Springfield

Source: The Saint John Daily Telegraph, July 6, 1882 – Dr. SKINNER and daughter, from Illinois, returned from Cambridge (Queens Co.) yesterday after a visit to the old homestead and to his aged mother. The doctor from the Prairie State is the third son of Rev. J.C. SKINNER, deceased who, with Rev. Joseph and David Crandall, was one of the pioneer preachers of this province. Dr. Skinner is a cousin of Hon. C.N. SKINNER of Saint John city and, with his daughter, is stopping at Lorne Hotel.

Source: Original Record Book of the Old Settlers’ Association (Jacksonville Public Library, Morgan, Illinois) – Bradford H. Skinner died on 12 Apr 1897, at the age of 64, after having spent 47 years in the county. [Old Settlers Association Necrological Lists 1879-1899, by Florence Hutchison. This list does not include the Registrants Lists. The death date is included in all entries, birth date is included in a few instances, as well as the age, how many years in Illinois and their place of birth/nativity. This is an invaluable research tool for those whose ancestors stayed in Morgan, Cass or Scott Counties IL. As Cass & Scott counties were a part of Morgan until 1837 and 1839, these people were also eligible for membership in the Association.]

LDS: Benjamin H M.D. Skinner (birth 1833, Queens, NB) married Mrs. C.A. Skinner. Abt 1861 Merritt, Scott, Illinois

Bradford married Eliza Ann STEWART on 2 May 1861 in Scott, Illinois. Eliza (daughter of Dr. Henry Milton STEWART and Caroline MADDEN) was born on 17 Sep 1839 in Exeter, Scott, Illinois; died on 27 Jan 1927 in Virden, Macoupin, Illinois; was buried on 28 Jan 1927 in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Scott, Illinois
• Census: 1870, Exeter, Scott, Illinois
• Census: 1880, Merritt, Morgan, Illinois
• Residence: 1902, Joplin, Jasper, Missouri
• Residence: 1904, St Louis, Missouri
• Census: 1910, Virden, Macoupin, Illinois

John married Sarah King NEIL on 24 Nov 1864 in Morgan, Illinois. Sarah (daughter of James NEIL) was born on 14 Jan 1836 in Hampshire, United Kingdom; died on 21 Jan 1918 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; was buried in Jacksonville East Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois
• Census: 1910, De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri

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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: 1870, Exeter, Scott, Illinois
• Census: 1880, Scott, Illinois

Notes:

From Atlas Map of Scott, illinois 1873, Andreas, Lyter & Co., Davenport, Iowa

DR. H. M. STEWART was born in Bedford, Virginia, on the 22d of August, 1806. His parents, Thomas and Mary Stewart, were both natives of Virginia. His father emigrated to Madison, Kentucky, in 1811, and settled in the town of Richmond, where the remains of both parents still repose in the old graveyard of that place. His father was a carpenter by trade, which he followed many years. They were both members of the M. E. Church, converted under the preaching of Lorenzo Dow, and he was a local preacher, and followed preaching up to the time of his death. The subject of this sketch received his early education in Kentucky, and at the age of nineteen his father died, and he continued to work on the farm until he arrived at the age of twenty. He then began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Jonathan Stout, of Richmond, Kentucky, where he spent three years, when he went to New Orleans, stopping there one year, after which he returned to Kentucky, visiting a short time with the friends of his youth, and then located in Harrison, Indiana, where he continued the practice of his profession until 1837. From there he emigrated to Morgan, Illinois (now Scott County), settling where he now resides, near the town of Exeter, on section 35, which was his first purchase, and where he built and improved. A view of the house which he erected at that time may be seen elsewhere in this map. Here the Doctor began the practice of his profession, which he continues to this day, much against his inclination, but the people will not allow him to retire. He has always enjoyed a large practice, and what is remarkable, has never hung out a sign of any description. He was married in 1830, to Miss Liza A. Madden, a native of Kentucky, and daughter of John Madden, Esq. They were married in Harrison, Indiana, in 1831. Mrs. Stewart died that year. They had one child, Clayton M., who now resides at the old homestead. In 1835 the Doctor was again married, to Miss Caroline Madden, sister of his first wife. She died March 19, 1870. They had six children, five of whom are now living, all married with the exception of one, - Henry C., who is now in Colorado. The Doctor has raised six sons, three of whom are practicing physicians. His son Charles died at the age of twenty.
 Dr. Stewart has always taken a very active part in politics. Since the organization of the republican party he has been an active supporter of its principles, and a staunch friend of the Union during the late war. He was a great admirer of President Lincoln, supporting him in both campaigns. Two of his sons were in the army. He did all in his power to encourage enlistments, and gave liberally of his means to the families of those who volunteered, and also obeyed every call when his professional services were needed, gratuitously, in the families of the gallant boys in the field.
 Dr. Stewart’s eldest son, Clayton M., read medicine in the office of his father three years, attended lectures at the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, where he graduated, and returning home, began the practice with his father, which he continued two years. In 1860 and 1861 he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, where he graduated. The second son, J. Horace Stewart, upon the breaking out of the rebellion, volunteered in the 14th regiment Illinois volunteers as a private. He was promoted to quartermaster of the regiment, which position he held until the regiment was mustered out of the service at the close of the war, when he returned home. In the fall of 1868 he was elected to the office of sheriff of Scott county by the republican party. His third son resides with his father-in-law at or near Riggston. His daughter Eliza Ann is the wife of Dr. B. H. Skinner, who resides at Merit, Scott, Illinois. John H., who now resides in Exeter, graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago. The Doctor has one of the finest grain stock, and fruit farms in the, consisting of five hundred and fifty acres of land. A view of his residence appears elsewhere in this Map.

Henry married Caroline MADDEN on 17 Jul 1836 in Harrison, Indiana. Caroline (daughter of John MADDEN) was born on 18 Dec 1815 in Kentucky; died on 19 Mar 1870; was buried in Gillham Cemetery, Winchester, Scott, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Illinois