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• Census: 1930, Brooklyn, New York, New York

Family/Spouse: Genevieve Mary AKSTIN. Genevieve (daughter of Anthony Teddy AKSTIN and Malvina ZOGELIS) was born on 8 Aug 1932 in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 14 Jun 2016 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Stephanie SKINNER was born on 1 Aug 1957 in New York, New York.
2. John Anthony SKINNER was born on 27 Oct 1965.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Military Service: 16 Oct 1941, New York, New York

Notes:

John was a lieutenant in the New York National Guard during the World War II.

John married Helen Elizabeth STEBBINS about 1927. Helen (daughter of Charles Maurice STEBBINS and Carrie Virginia SMITH) was born on 6 Feb 1906 in New York; died on 8 Jun 1991 in San Mateo, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Census: 1920, Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Census: 1930, Brooklyn, New York, New York

Notes:

Her father graduated from Amherst College.

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• Census: 1870, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1940, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire

Notes:

Letter from Prescott Orde Skinner to Mitia Olga Skinner:

[Mitia Olga is Prescott’s niece. First two pages of this letter are lost. Date is unknown]
 “[…] her aunt Alice (my wife) is most attractive. They are all coming up to Hanover to pass the Christmas. Alicias’s family with her husband’s (John Carleton) family, and John Skinner and Helen with us.
 “Now as to the Skinners, I will tell you what I know. The family in the late 17th or early 18th century, sailed from Chichester, England, settling in Colchester, Connecticut. Alice got a lot of the early history of our family from my mother who got it in turn from my father. Alice will write this early period to you. The Skinners that I descend from were all professional men, mostly ministers.
 “My grandfather Joseph Churchill Skinner was a Baptist minister in Nova Scotia and then in New Brunswick. I have his portrait taken in the 1840s or 1850s; an impressive looking man, dignified in his white shirt, and the dress ot his time.
 “At the beginning of the Revolution War, my ancestors Skinners were Tories (my father was not proud of this). They, with a few other of the same attachment to England, got into a large open boat and amidst all the perils of the sea, sailed north along the New England coast to Nova Scotia. I think they settled in what is known as the Evangeline country – but Alice will tell you about this.
 “My grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Churchill was called to New Brunswick and lived and preached for many years in a town on the Washademoak Lake, about fifty miles from the City of St. John up the St. John river.
 “My father was the second of seven children, born in Nova Scotia about two months before the family left for New Brunswick (1825). My father worked hard under difficulties, and finally entered Fredericton Academy (in New Brunswick) thence to Harvard University. He studied in the Harvard Medical School under such men as Professor Stones and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. My father used to tell us a great many anecdotes about Dr. Holmes in the classroom. My father was in the 1850s or 1860s interim in Mass. General Hospital.
 “For a number of years, my father practiced in St. John, New Brunswick. He made some money there, then went to Boston in Tremont Street, near the Common where I was born, then to the South End where he bought a house and made his office there. Later he sold the house, and our family moved to Roxbury a sort of suburb of Boston.
 “The story of my father’s marriage, Alice will tell you about. My mother, the best of women, insisted on us four boys having the finest opportunities for education. Macy and I in Harvard University, Vernon in Law School, and your father in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he stood well as a student.
 “Later I studied at the University of Paris – Harvard graduate School, and taught for 38 years at Dartmouth College where I am now a professor emeritus on a pension.
 “I don’t know but I think that the Daughters of the America Revolution insist on the ancestors being a native patriot. My own sympathies are all with the American cause, and in spite of my father’s ancestrial party membership, my father from boyhood always was in sympathy with the American cause.
 “But ask me some more and I will try to answer. Your Aunt Alice and I congratulate you on your engagement most heavily. As you write it, it seems a perfect match. By the way your aunt Alice is very fond of you.
 Love – Uncle Orde.”

From the “Harvard College, Class of 1896 Fiftieth Anniversary Report”:

Prescott Orde Skinner (1908)

PRESCOTT ORDE SKINNER took his A.M. at Harvard in 1897, and continued graduate study at Harvard and in Paris until 1900, whe he was appointed instructor in French at Dartmouth College. He served as professor of Romance Languages at Dartmouth until he became emeritus in 1938.
 “After my childhood which was spent in one of the pleasanter (no longer so) parts of the South End in Boston,” he writes, “I passed eight long profitable years at the Public Latin School in Boston. After an interval of several years, I entered Harvard. My two years in the Graduate School were a great revelation to me under the inspiration of Professors Grandgent an Sheldon. there I formed lifelong friendships with other students, many of whom entered a profession similar to my own.
 “My graduate studies were continued at the École des Hautes Études in Paris under world-famous scholars. I revisited Paris and other parts of Europe off and on – long enough each time to get the foreign atmosphere, cultivate some knowledge and love of the arts, and make some lasting friends, especially in France. Then followed thirty-seven years of teaching at Dartmouth College.
 “Since my promotion (ironic user of the word) to the status of professor emeritus at the age of seventy, I have missed somewhat my old classroms, but have not suffered too much from boredom. I have always loved long walks along the open road, through fields, woods, and over hills – deambulare per amoena loca. Today the length and speed of these walks are considerably curtailed. I have enjoyed frequent sojourns with my married children and find my grandchildren most attractive.
 “Locally, I frequent our splendid Dartmouth Library, have coffee down town with old cronies, and can appreciate the restfulness of my home life in our ancient Webster Cottage. Webster roomed in this house in his freshman year.
 “As I no longer have to keep to my former professional specialties, I indulge in the most miscellaneous reading an rereading, generally but not always of a high order. I might add that I follow Harvard’s athletic activities and am still a confirmed Harvard rooter.”
 Skinner was born April 28, 1867, at Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Skinner and Jennie Reid (Terwilliger) Skinner. “The Public Latin School in Boston,” he writes, “offered an eight-year course of study. We had Latin twice a day regularly, five years of Greed, plenty of modern and ancient history, and mathematics, English, and French in addition. From this training I gained a lifelong love for these subjects which was further stimulated by my Harvard teachers. Today I am reviewing with great pleasure the works of Horace”.
 On July 10, 1901, Skinner married Alice Van Leer Carrick at Boston, Massachusetts. Their children are: Margaret Van Leer (Mrs. Hancort), born August 12, 1902; John Carrick, born October 21, 1905; and Alicia Prescott (Mrs. Carleton), born December 10, 1909. There are five grandchildren. Skinner’s brother, Macy Millmore Skinner, received an A.B. from Harvard in 1894, an A.M. in 1895, and a Ph.D. in 1897.
 In World War II Skinner’s son, John, was a lieutenant in the New York National Guard.
 Skinner has written textbooks on his field. In 1937 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Litt. D.

Source: Notes toward a Catalog of the Buildings and Landscapes of Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Webster Cottage 1780 –

“

Webster Cottage – Dartmouth College

[…] P.O. Skinner owned the house by 1905; Alice Van Leer Carrick (his wife) wrote The Next-To-Nothing House about the cottage and its antiques collection in 1922. The College bought the building from Skinner in 1928 and moved it for Silsby Hall to a site at 27B North Main Street across from the Gamma Delta Chi House. Now the house faced the Choate House, the other Ripley dwelling. The College moved the house again c.1966 to the site in front of Cutter Hall where it now stands, again facing the Choate House. The building now houses the Hanover Historical Society. The c.1997 faculty residence that the College attached to Cutter/Shabazz stands in line with Webster Cottage and follows its appearance.[…]”

Occidental College Library Author: Dow, Louis Henry, 1872-
Title: Quelques contes des romanciers naturalistes; Pub info: Boston, D.C. Heath & company, 1907
Add author: Skinner, Prescott Orde Descript ix, 244 p. 17 cm.

Prescott married Alice Van Leer CARRICK on 10 Jul 1901. Alice (daughter of Samuel Pulsifer CARRICK and Mary Florence CLARK) was born on 1 Aug 1875 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee; died on 26 Nov 1961 in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1920, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1930, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
• Census: 1940, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire

Notes:

Source: New Hampshire Authors — Carrick, Alice Van Leer (Mrs. Prescott Orde Skinner) (1875–); lived in Hanover, NH; antiques expert

Source: Collectors Luck in France, 1924 by Carrick, Alice van Leer.

Source: Collector’s Luck, 1937 DeLuxe edition Garden City Pub 207 pp. Collector’s Luck, 1919 possible 1st Atlantic Monthly Press Pub 207 pp.

Source: Collector’s luck in England, Little Brown and Co. Boston 1926 inscribed by author, a good copy.

Source: A History of American Silhouettes – A Collector’s Guide, Charles E Tuttle Co.

Source: Shades of our Ancestors, Little, Brown and Co. Boston 1928. Red cloth with gilt lettering and silhouette on cover. Inscribed First Edition Condition: Previous owners’ signature on front fly endpaperand spine fading. otherwise, Very Good.

Source: Interview with A. Hyatt Mayor (march 21, 1969) Simthsonian Archives of American Art
[...]
HM: Yes. A number of silhouette collections came in. There was a little Mary Martin (not the actress), another one who, out of the blue, bequeathed us her silhouette collection. I don’t know who she was, never met her, have no idea.
PC: Just a letter came one day.
HM: Just a letter came one day from the lawyer saying it’s yours if you want it. It was a very good collection. Then I was able to get Glen Tilley Morse to bequeath his collection which was the next biggest American collection. And I was able to buy a lot of the ones out of a collection formed by Mrs. Hill in Charlottesville. Those were the three greatest American collections. Then there was Alice Van Leer Carrick whose collection went to the Smithsonian. But we got three out of the four great American collections of silhouettes.
[...]

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 — Name: Alice van Lear Skinner; Arrival Date: 2 Sep 1923; Port of departure: Glasgow, Scotland; Ship Name: Columbia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Lenox, Madison, New York
• Census: 1900, Oneida, Madison, New York
• Census: 1910, Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Census: 1920, Brooklyn, New York, New York

Notes:

Source: The Trustees of Amherst College, 1939 (p. 332)
3502 Stebbins, Charles Maurice, a. Charles Rufus and Lucy Jane (Bishop) b. Amboy NY Apr, 14 1871. MA Amh 1903. Phi Gamma Delta. prep. Oneida (NY) Union HS; Colgate 1888-91; Amh 1891-92. Taught Salt Lake City (Utah) HS 1895-97; priv study and experimental work 1897-1903; teacher Boys’ HS Brooklyn NY 1903-15; stud Columbia U 1903-06; teacher Cornell Summer Sessions 1907-09; Brooklyn Inst of Arts and Sciences 1913-14; grade adviser and head of printing dept, teacher Eng and Latin, Erasmus Hall HS Brooklyn NY 1915-1936; pres Stebbins and Co Inc (pubs ednl books); v-pres and treas of Safety Service Milk Bottle Corp NY. Chron Edn Com Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, mem Scholarship Com of same; exec sec of HS Teachers Assn of Greater NY 1929-33; pres Amer Secondary Edn Assn 1932-36. Author A Progressive Course in English for Secondary Schools; The Golden Treasury Readers; English Grammar for Secondary Schools; The Crystal Palace and other Stories; A Bridge to Caesar, 1928; Past and Future, an Interpretation and a Prophecy, 1928; series of 30 articles for The Aquarian Age, 1928-31
[...] A Progressive Course in Latin for Secondary Schools (First Year, 1927; Second Year, 1928); ed Child Lore Magazine 1910-12. m Jun 24 1906 Carrie Virginia dr John K Smith, Oconee Ill. ch Anna Katharine (Mrs Robert L Hershey); Evelyn Virginia (d); Helen Elizabeth (Mrs John Carrick Skinner), res 1427 Union St Brooklyn NY; bus Room 3306, 500 Fifth Ave NYC. see Who’s Who.

Source: Who’s who in New York and State, 1911
Amherst Coll., AB, 1892; AM, 1903; Columbia Univ., 1904-06; married, Blue Mound, Ill., June 24, 1896, Carrie Virginia Smith; children/ Anna Katharine, born April 14, 1897; Evelyn Virginia, born Jan. 13, 1901, Helen Elizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1906. Teacher in High School, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1892-93; Salt Lake City, Utah, 1893-99; private study 1899- 1903; teacher Boys’ High School, Brooklyn, 1903-08. Lecturer in Cornell University summer session, 1907-1909. Editor of The High School English Leaflet, 1906-08. Author: A Progressive Course In English for Secondary Schools (first year book, Grammar School book); Christmas Eve and Other Poems, 1894; The Painter of

Source: Builders of Our Nation, 1914
Stebbins, Charles Maurice, educator, author of 1427 Union St., Brooklyn, NY ; born in Town of Amboy, Oswego, NY, April 14, 1871 ; son Charles Rufus and Lucy Jane (Bishop) Stebbins; educated Colgate Univ., Amherst Coll., AB, 1892; AM, 1903; Columbia Univ., 1904-06.

Charles married Carrie Virginia SMITH on 24 Jun 1896 in Blue Mound, Macon, Illinois. Carrie (daughter of John K. SMITH and Hannah Jane DAVIS) was born on 17 Nov 1868 in Nokomus, Montgomery, Illinois; died after 1930 in New York; was buried in Greensboro Village Cemetery, Orleans, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Oneida, Madison, New York
• Census: 1910, Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Census: 1920, Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Census: 1930, Brooklyn, New York, New York

Notes:

June 24, 1896, Carrie Virginia Smith; children: Anna Katharine, b. April 14, 1897, Evelyn Virginia, b. Jan. 13, 1901, Helen Elizabeth, b. Feb.6, 1906. Teacher in High School, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1892-93; Salt Lake City, Utah, 1893-99; private study 1899- 1903; teacher Boys’ High School, Brooklyn, 1903-08. Lecturer in Cornell University summer session, 1907-1909. Editor of The High School English Leaflet, 1906-08. Author: A Progressive Course In English for Secondary Schools (first year book, Grammar School book); Christmas Eve and Other Poems, 1894; The Painter of Madonnas and Other Poems, 1908. Editor: Byron’s Prisoner of Chillón, Mazeppa

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• 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]

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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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Samuel married Mary Florence CLARK on 12 Nov 1868 in Davidson, Tennessee. Mary was born in 1840 in Tennessee; died in 1922; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Lenox, Madison, New York
• Census: 1900, Oneida, Madison, New York

Charles married Lucy Jane BISHOP on 30 Dec 1865 in Amboy, Oswego, New York. Lucy was born on 19 Nov 1848 in Amboy, Oswego, New York; died in 1914; was buried in Oneida Castle Cemetery, Oneida Castle, Madison, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Oneida, Madison, New York

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Audubon, Montgomery, Illinois

John married Hannah Jane DAVIS. Hannah was born on 2 Feb 1837 in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio; died on 6 Sep 1888 in Illinois; was buried in Mound Cemetery, Pana, Christian, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Audubon, Montgomery, Illinois