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Macy Millmore SKINNER

Male 1871 - 1964  (92 years)


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

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Notes:

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Dr. John SKINNER was born on 16 Feb 1824 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia (son of Rev. Joseph Churchill SKINNER and Eliza A. CHASE); died on 27 Dec 1909 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Notes:

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

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

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

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

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


    Source: The Medical register for New England v.1, 1877John 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, 1913John 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]


  2. 3.  Jane Reid TERWILLIGER was born on 26 Feb 1835 in New Scotland, Albany, New York (daughter of John Simon TERWILLIGER and Margaret REID); died on 8 Apr 1922 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Children:
    1. Prescott Orde SKINNER was born on 28 Apr 1867 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 16 Feb 1951 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.
    2. Vernon Villiers SKINNER was born on 22 Nov 1868 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 17 May 1951 in Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California.
    3. Fenwick Fenton SKINNER was born on 25 Jul 1870 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1953 in Groveland, Livingston, New York.
    4. 1. Macy Millmore SKINNER was born on 10 Dec 1871 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 9 Feb 1964 in Ohio; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake, Ohio.
    5. Madeline Aubyn SKINNER was born on 4 Sep 1873 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 1 Nov 1874 in Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    6. Harry Thornton SKINNER was born on 17 Jan 1877 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 9 Jul 1878 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Rev. Joseph Churchill SKINNER was born on 16 Feb 1800 in Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia (son of Charles SKINNER and Sarah OSBORN); died on 23 Mar 1860 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick; was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, McDonald Corner, Queens, New Brunswick.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • 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]


  2. 5.  Eliza A. CHASE was born on 22 Jun 1803 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia (daughter of William CHASE and Sarah JESS); died in 1888 in Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, McDonald Corner, Queens, New Brunswick.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • 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.

    Children:
    1. William Allen SKINNER was born on 26 Jan 1822 in Nova Scotia; died before 1870.
    2. 2. Dr. John SKINNER was born on 16 Feb 1824 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 27 Dec 1909 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
    3. Nancy SKINNER was born about 1826 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick; died on 16 Aug 1870 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
    4. Robina SKINNER was born on 27 Jul 1827 in Queens, New Brunswick; died on 26 May 1906 in Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried on 26 May 1906 in Saint John, New Brunswick.
    5. Rebecca SKINNER was born on 28 Apr 1829 in N. Grand Lakes, Queens, New Brunswick; died after 1901.
    6. Elizabeth Anne SKINNER was born on 15 Aug 1831 in New Brunswick; died in 1910 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick.
    7. Dr. Bradford Hewlett SKINNER was born on 15 May 1833 in Greenwich, Kings, New Brunswick; died on 12 Apr 1897 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois.
    8. Dr. Joseph Crandall SKINNER was born on 30 Aug 1835 in Queens, New Brunswick; died on 6 May 1884; was buried in Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
    9. Dr. Edward Manning SKINNER was born on 2 Oct 1837 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick; died on 8 Feb 1918 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mt Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

  3. 6.  John Simon TERWILLIGER was born on 16 Sep 1800 in Bethlehem, Albany, New York; was christened in Church of New Salem, Albany, New York (son of Simon TERWILLIGER and Jane COON); died on 31 Aug 1873 in Centerville, Allegany, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

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


  4. 7.  Margaret REID was born about 1803; died on 11 Dec 1838 in Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.
    Children:
    1. James M. TERWILLIGER was born on 30 Jan 1825 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 17 Oct 1909 in Roselle, Union, New Jersey; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.
    2. George TERWILLIGER was born on 26 Apr 1827 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 6 Apr 1892 in Fulton, Whiteside, Illinois.
    3. Nancy TERWILLIGER was born on 13 Apr 1830 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 2 Jan 1915.
    4. Mary Ellen TERWILLIGER was born on 21 Jun 1833 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 1 Oct 1834.
    5. 3. Jane Reid TERWILLIGER was born on 26 Feb 1835 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 8 Apr 1922 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
    6. Mary Elizabeth TERWILLIGER was born on 24 Apr 1837 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 15 Mar 1908 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Charles SKINNER was born on 3 Jan 1747/1748 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut; died before 1837 in Nova Scotia.

    Notes:

    “Sarah and Charles Skinner went to Maugerville, N.B. just before the Loyalists, and it is assumed they might have gotten a good price for their land and moved to Bass River, N.S., where Charles was a school teacher. They stayed there about five years before moving to Kings County. The school records in Bass River were burned in a fire.” (Source: Isabel Palmeter) This would suggest that the family came to Cornwallis Township just prior to the influx of Loyalists.

    Charles Skinner was a grantee at Cornwallis township, that he was born 3 Jan 1748 in Colchester, Connecticut, son of Aaron Skinner. He married 24 Nov 1774 at Passamaquoddy, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Osborn, perhaps from Martha’s Vinyard. She lists 15 children, including my Ann Skinner, who married 1802 Thomas Lyons. (Source: Esther Clark Wright in “Planters and Pioneers”)

    The Skinners first came to Passamaquoddy, Campobello or Indian Island (all in Passamaquoddy Bay in Charlotte, New Brunswick), where Charles might have taught school from 1774 to 1778. They moved to St. John and Maugerville in 1778 where he taught school until 1780. The arrival of the Loyalists may have provided financial incentive to sell their lands profitably. They moved to Five Islands, Cumberland, N.S. (but I think then all part of Cornwallis Township) where the family lived for the first five years, before they settled in 1785 at Little Pereau, near Blomidon, in the Cornwallis area of present day Kings County. (Source: Rev. Davison in his book “Alice of Grand-Pré”)

    Charles Skinner was a school teacher by profession, and one reference said he was a “refined gentleman”.

    The father of Samuel Skinner (i.e., Charles Skinner) came from New England to the Maritimes just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. (Source: The book “Biographical Review… Province of New Brunswick” published in Boston in 1900 page 97)

    “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.” (Source: The Christian Messenger an early Baptist magazine).

    Charles married Sarah OSBORN on 24 Nov 1774 in Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia. Sarah was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Sarah OSBORN was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.

    Notes:

    From notes of A. Joanne (Irving) Hunt, Litchfield, NH:
    From The Christian Messenger (an early Baptist magazine): “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.”

    Children:
    1. Charles SKINNER was born on 9 Oct 1775 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died about 1803.
    2. Alfred SKINNER was born on 20 Jun 1778 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 2 Jul 1858 in Coldbrook, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    3. Eunice SKINNER was born on 31 Jan 1780 in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia; died on 25 Jan 1839 in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia.
    4. Rebecca SKINNER was born on 22 Dec 1781 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 5 Apr 1857 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Canard Cemetery, Upper Canard, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    5. Lavinia SKINNER was born on 27 Jan 1784 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 9 May 1874 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
    6. Ann SKINNER was born on 9 Mar 1786 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 19 Oct 1815 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    7. Mary SKINNER was born on 29 Dec 1787 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    8. Elizabeth SKINNER was born on 11 Nov 1789 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 14 Mar 1860 in Nova Scotia.
    9. William SKINNER was born on 13 Dec 1791 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 11 Jul 1870 in Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    10. Sarah SKINNER was born on 30 Dec 1793 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died about 1855.
    11. Abigail SKINNER was born on 15 Apr 1796 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 18 Feb 1868 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Chipman Corner Cemetery, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    12. David SKINNER was born on 6 Feb 1798 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 20 Dec 1868 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Baptist Cemetery, Billtown, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    13. 4. Rev. Joseph Churchill SKINNER was born on 16 Feb 1800 in Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia; died on 23 Mar 1860 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick; was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, McDonald Corner, Queens, New Brunswick.
    14. Samuel SKINNER was born on 16 Mar 1802 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 21 Jan 1888 in Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick.
    15. Benjamin SKINNER was born on 22 Dec 1803 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; and died.

  3. 10.  William CHASE was born about 1778 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in 1823 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.

    William married Sarah JESS on 14 Sep 1802 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Sarah was born about 1779 in Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia; died in 1823 in Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Sarah JESS was born about 1779 in Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia; died in 1823 in Nova Scotia.
    Children:
    1. 5. Eliza A. CHASE 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.
    2. William CHASE was born on 6 Feb 1805 in Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 24 Oct 1831 in Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia; was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    3. Rev. David I. CHASE was born on 4 Nov 1806; died on 24 Mar 1844; was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, McDonald Corner, Queens, New Brunswick.
    4. Sarah Olivia CHASE was born on 29 Jun 1809 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 10 Apr 1893.
    5. George Lewis CHASE was born on 23 Mar 1811 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 8 Jan 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut.
    6. Martha CHASE was born on 23 Nov 1812 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; and died.
    7. John Payzant CHASE was born on 22 Feb 1815 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 19 Apr 1854 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    8. Mary Alice CHASE was born on 21 Dec 1818 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; and died.
    9. Hannah A. CHASE was born on 27 Dec 1821 in Welsford, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 29 Apr 1867 in Somerset, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Somerset, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    10. Elias CHASE was born on 7 Nov 1823 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; and died.

  5. 12.  Simon TERWILLIGER was born on 20 Feb 1760 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; was christened on 23 Mar 1760 in Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, New York; died on 4 Aug 1839 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.

    Simon married Jane COON in 1788 in New Scotland, Albany, New York. Jane was born on 4 Oct 1770 in Albany, New York; died on 4 Apr 1846 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Jane COON was born on 4 Oct 1770 in Albany, New York; died on 4 Apr 1846 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Jennetje /Koen/

    Children:
    1. Sarah TERWILLIGER was christened on 28 Jun 1789 in First Dutch Reformed Church, Albany, New York.
    2. Ann TERWILLIGER was born on 27 Oct 1791 in Albany, New York; died in Unknown.
    3. Richard TERWILLIGER was born on 6 Jan 1794; was christened on 23 Feb 1794 in Princetown, Schenectady, New York; died on 9 Feb 1881; was buried in Lysander Union Cemetery, Onondaga, New York.
    4. Conrad TERWILLIGER was born on 5 Apr 1798 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 3 May 1880 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.
    5. 6. John Simon TERWILLIGER was born on 16 Sep 1800 in Bethlehem, Albany, New York; was christened in Church of New Salem, Albany, New York; died on 31 Aug 1873 in Centerville, Allegany, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.
    6. Fanny TERWILLIGER was born on 6 May 1802 in Albany, New York; was christened on 13 May 1802 in New Salem, New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 15 Nov 1881.
    7. George TERWILLIGER was born in 1804 in New York; died in 1890 in Madison, New York; was buried in Pine Plains Cemetery, Sullivan, Madison, New York.