From The American Oxonian, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, 1931
J.P. Carleton, (New Hampshire and Magadalen) according to indirect but reliable news, was married in Paris, on July first, to Miss Alicia Prescott Skinner. He is a member of the law firm of McLane, Davis, & Carleton, Manchester,

From The Annapolis Valley Whitmans, Whitman, Charles B, Private Printing, Weston, Ontario; 1972

From The Bowdoin Alumnus, Jan. 1941. : Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Skinner [class of 1936] annouce the birth of a daughter, Judith Hall, at Richardson House, Boston, on Oct. 30 1940.

From The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, Jun 23, 1871 : m. (St. John) city, Wednesday 21st June, by Rev. T. Harley, R. Chipman SKINNER, Esq., Barrister-at-Law / Elizabeth Clear CLERKE d/o Chas. CLERKE, Esq.

From The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, May 27, 1878 : m. Sackville (West. Co.) 14th inst., by Rev. D.A. Steele, Rev. Isaac SKINNER / Eliza Isabel BLACK youngest d/o Josiah BLACK, Esq.

From The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, November 9, 1893 : m. Higginsville, N.S., Nov. 1st, by Rev. W.F. Parker, pastor of the Immanuel church, Truro, Rev. I.R. SKINNER, Oak Bay, N.B. / Emily H. McCABE, Higginsville, Halifax, N.S.

From The Gleaner (Fredericton) March, 2, 1896 : Charles St.C. Skinner, s/o C.N. SKINNER of St. John has removed to Boston to reside permanently.

From The Kneeland Miscellany, Compiled by Bertha J. and Frank E. Kneeland, 1914-1917.

Page 206. – Frank Elmer Kneeland, born at Searsport, Me., July 27, 1870. Married December 24, 1910, to Bertha Louise Junkins of Brooklyn by the Reverend Doctor Newell Dwight Hillis, Pastor of Plymouth Church, in the parlor of his home at 23 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. For eleven years preceding and six months succeeding her marriage, she was the teacher of Latin and Greek at the Berkeley Institute, 183 (181-3-5) Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Her parents were George Selby and Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins – (her mother was named Mary Josephine) –, born 10, 1846 and February 12, 1848, at South Berwick, Maine, and Rochester, New Hampshire, respectively. [...]
 Mr. and Mrs. Junkins’s eldest child, Bertha Louise, had taken the degree of A.B. at Boston University with the class of 1898 and that of A.M. at Radcliffe in 1899, in September of which year she assumed her duties as one of the Faculty of The Berkeley Institute and became on the the occupants of a table for four in what is now known as “The Victoria” at 42-44 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn — which last is only some three miles removed from the north’east corner of the Manhattan tower of the old Brooklyn Bridge!

Frank E. and Bertha (Junkins) Kneeland have two children:
 (1) Helen Elizabeth Crockett Kneekland – (except for birth certificate purposes the “Elizabeth” has been dropped) –, born at the Prospect Heights Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Washington Ave. and ST. John’s Place) – on December 24, 1911, her mother having been attended byr DR. J.P. Pendelton, 90 Sixth Ave., Broklyn. As I write this (3/12/17) she is scurrying around “The Hill” in Searsport, dragging a sled made for Hal by her Great-Grandfather Crockett and with “Don” as her companion!
 (2) Frances Hichborn Kneeland, born June 20, 1916, at the Methodist Episcopal – (“Seney”) – Hospital, Seventh Ave. and Seventh street, Brooklyn, N.Y., where her mother was attented by Dr. Harold Bell of President Street, Brooklyn, acting for Dr. Louis M. Dusseldorf, 392 Union St., Brooklyn the family physician who had recently lost his right hand in an automobile accident.
 Before she was two weeks old the Infantile Paralysis Epidemic of 1916, in which there were something like 10,000 cases and 2500 deaths in the City of New York alone, had gained full headway in Brooklyn, its place of origin, whence her father, upon learning from Dr. Bailey Sunday evening that seventeen cases had that day been taken from a few blocks in Union Street, had fled the next day, Monday, July 3rd, to Maine with her sister Helen, leaving her and her mother to be brought home from the hospital the next day by “Grammie” Shaw (Mrs. Florence C., the wife of the Rev. Edward B. Shaw of Monroe, N.Y.)–, and on which “Flight into Egypt” he was followed by her and her mother just two weeks later – they arrived at Searsport on July 19th and they’re there yet! She is now (3/12/17) busily, and noisily, engaged in cutting some teeth, two of which are already in evidence! The “Frances” is as near as she could come to being named for her “Daddy” and the “Hichborn” was the middle name of both her Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother Kneeland, on whom it had been bestowed in respect to that Hon. Robert Hichborn of the “Boston Tea Party” who had brougth her Great-Great-Grandfather Edward Kneeland to Cape Jellison from Boston when the American Republic was so young that its Constitution had not yet been adopted nor Washington elected President! — and but for whom our particular branch of the Kneeland family probably never would have landed in Maine! Perhaps they wouldn’t have landed anywhere! Quien sabe?
 A propos of names: – Her elder sister was first called “Helen Elizabeth” but when, upon attaining to 

From The Nashua Telegraph, 19 Jan 1949:
Ex-Nashuans Observer 51st Wedding Anniv.
Mr and Mrs Henry Erickson, 84 Gates st, Portsmouth, fomerly of this city, are observing their 51st wedding anniversary today. They were married in this city Jan 19, 1898.
Mrs Maude Erickson was the daughter of the late John and Della Forrance of Nashua, but has resided in Portsmouth for the past 40 years.
Mr Erickson came from Sweden 65 years ago at the age of 13 years. They have nine children, 17 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

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 

From The New York Times:
Herbert Evans Fisher, 67 years old, Treasurer of the Boston & Maine Railroad for fifteen years, died at his home in Newton, Mass., yesterday.

From U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949:
U.S.S Somers – July 5, 1940 sailing from San Diego, Calif. to Pearl Harbor, T.H. :
POLICH, Matthew Cyril | service number: 381 39 91 | date of enlistment: 13 Mar 1940 (Des Moines, Iowa)

From Who’s who among students in American universities and colleges: Volume 53, 1989 :
SKINNER, JOHN ANTHONY: Taylors, SC; Bob Jones University; b: Oct 27, 1965; m: Paula; p: Genevieve M. Skinner; deg: BS, Educ, Mus Educ, 1989; act: Pi Kappa Alpha, Chpln, Pres; Univ Chorale, Pres; Traveling Vocal Ensemble; Grace Levinson.

Sources: New England Christian Youth Chorus.

From Who’s who in California (Volume 1942-43):
VALENTINE, Dean Percy Friars, A.B., M.L., Ed.D.
Dean and Vice-President. Professor of Psychology, San Francisco State College. Born: Boston (Mass.). Dec. 1, 1884; s. of Emma (Friars) and Richard P. Valentine. Education: Stanford Univ.; Univ. of Calif. Degrees: A.B., Stanford, 1909; M.L., 1914, Ed.D., 1927, Univ. of Calif.
Married: Gladys M. Prestwood, d. of Edward L. Feudner in Dixon (Calif.), Dec. 26, 1915; ch.: Virginia. Hope, Edward.
Supervisor of the Teaching of History and Government. in San Francisco Normal School; Principal of Training School and Instr. in Education and Logic, Fresno State Teachers College; Visiting Professor, Univ. of No. Dakota, Univ. of Utah, and San Diego State College, summer sessions; Lecturer in Education, Univ. of Calif.; Dean and Vice-Pres. and Prof, of Psychology, San Francisco State College, since 1924.
Directorships: Board of Trustees, Alto Psychologic Center.
Publications : California-the Story of Our State (school text. State Printing Office), 1915; The Psychology of Personality (Appleton), 1927; The Art of the Teacher (Appleton). 1931. Contributor to general and professional magazines.
Memberships: Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Kappa. Politics: Democrat.
Bus. Address: 124 Buchanan St., San Francisco, Calif.
Home Address: 2033 Berryman St., Berkeley, Calif.

From Who’s who in New England, volume 2 1915:
FISHER, Irving Jewell, M.D.: b. Somerville, Mass., Oct 6, 1877; s. Hervert Evans and Esmerelda Porter (Delano) Fisher; grad. Boston English High Sch., 1895; advanced class English High Sch., 1896; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1900; house officer Boston City Hosp., 1900-2; Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, summer 1902; med. courses, Berlin and Vienna, winter of 1902-3; m. Gertrude Davis Hall, of Somerville, Mass., Oct. 6, 1905; 2 children, Robert Gordon, Jeanne. Practiced in West Newton, Mass., since Mar., 1903; mem. staff of Newton Hosp. Mem. AMA, Mass. Med. Soc., NE Pediatric Soc., Boston City Hosp. Alumni Assn., Harvard Med. Alumni Assn. Republican. Unitarian. Clubs: Harvard (Boston), Neighborhood, Brae Burn Country (West Newton). Home: 79 Chestnut St., West Newton, Mass.

From Ann Marie Skinner of Washington (Ann Marie Owen a_m_owen@hotmail.com)

From Evelyn Rhodes Mikula’s Rowe Genealogy: “Samuel came west after civil war, farmed until 1891 then employed as
village marshal and street commissioner until 1900 when he was engineer at pumping station. He was a member of MWA (Modern Woodmen of America) in 1900; in 1887 elected a trustee of Mt. Morris, Il.”

From Judy Smith in Evelyn Rhodes Mikula’s Rowe genealogy:

“Joseph R. Row was born December 10, 1827 in Washington, Md. Sometime in 1849 he married Nancy Duffy. Joseph Row did not fight in the Civil War, but paid a substitute a bounty of $300.00 to go in his place. When again he was called for war duty, this time the bounty being $500.00, he left Maryland, moving his family to near Mount Morris, IL. Nancy died in 1870 leaving him with eight children. In 1871 Joseph remarried, this time to Lydia Slifer. In 1872, Joseph and family moved again to near Dallas Center, IA. There he farmed on a farm east of town and always drove a pair of mules. He died 8 July 1910.”

From Bertha Row Emmert in Evelyn Rhodes Mikula’s Rowe genealogy:

“In Maryland, hid horses from Confederate soldiers. Paid cash bounty to avoid Civil War army service. Moved to Illinois 1865.”

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.”

From the Ada Evening News, February 27, 1927: « Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Le Baron of McAlester are week-end guests in Ada of Mr. and Mrs. F J. McFarland and Miss Ethylene McFarland of the Harris hotel. Mrs. Lebaron is an aunt of Miss Ethylene. »

From the Ada Evening News, June 15, 1927.
 Mrs. H. R. Haas of Sapulpa, Mrs. Pearl Andrews and children, Laura, Grace and Mary of Tulsa, are guests of Mrs. Haas’ sister and Mrs. Andrews’ aunt, Mrs. F. J. McFarland and Mr. McFarland of the Harris hotel.

From the Ada Evening News, September 9, 1927.
 Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McFarland of the Harris hotel left overland today for Sapulpa and Tulsa where they will be week-end guests of relatives and friends.
 Mrs. Pearl Andrews left today for her home in Tulsa following a short visit in Ada with her aut, Mrs. F. J. McFarland of the Harris hotel.

From the Ada Evening News, February 20, 1928.
 Mrs. Pearl Andrews, of Tulsa, spent the week-end in the city visiting as guest of her aunt, Mrs. F. J. McFarland, of the Harris Hotel.
 Mrs. H. R. Haas, returned to her home in Sapulpa following a week-end visit in Ada as house guest of her sister, Mrs. F. J. McFarland at the Harris hotel.

From the Ada Evening News, June 14, 1928.
 Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McFarland of the Harris Hotel have as their house guests Mrs. McFarland’s sister, Mrs. Ella Graham and daughter of Florida, and her niece, Mrs. Pearl Andrews and daughter of Tulsa.

From the Ada Evening News, June 15, 1928.
 Mrs. Ella Graham and daughter, Miss Ruth, left today for Tulsa following a visit in Ada as guests of Mrs Graham’s sister, Mrs. F. J. McFarland and Mr. McFarland of the Harris hotel. They are enroute from their winter home in Florida to their Michigan summer home. Miss Ruth Graham is Queen of the Ponce de Leon celebration, which is an annual event in Florida, and wille rule over the festivities for four years.
 Mrs. Pearl Andrews and little daughters, Misses Grace and Mary, left today for their home in Tulsa after visiting Mrs. Andrew’s aunt, Mrs. F. J. McFarland. Miss Grace and Miss Mary, who attend school at the Sacred Heart convent near Konawa, joined their mother here.

From the Dixon Evening Telegraph (July 23, 1949) — Mr. and mrs Richard Fay, Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hollewell and sons, Milledgeville, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton D. Hollewell in observance of their wedding anniversary and the seventh birthday of their grandson, Gary Lee Hollewell. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kelley and Mrs. Ruth Kelley, Rockford, were afternoon callers at their home.

From the Gastonia Gazette, February 18, 1964.
Youth’s Driving Permit Revoked
A Gastonia youth surrendered his driver’s permit today in Municipal Court until Dec. 1, rather than face a prison sentence on a charge of reckless driving.
City Police Office J. W. Russel said he and Officer D. L. Rhyne said they chased David Arnold Blackburn, 19, of 1007 E. Sixth Ave., from Cox Rd., to Grier School.
Russell said he first heard Blackburn coming down the road at a very high rate of speed. He said Blackburn hit a ditch and his car left the ground and leaped about five or six feet into the air and came to rest about five feed from a utility pole.
Judge Oscar Mason told Blackburn he could surrender his driver’s permit and report to court Dec. 1, 1964 and show he had been of good behavior or else he would sentence him today.

From the Sarasota Journal, Apr. 3, 1970.
Blackburn Loses Car Second Time Around
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — David Blackburn managed to stop his car at a railroad crossing two weeks ago as a train was passing, and lost only his headlights. At the same crossing, Wednesday, police said, a train hit his car again, this time broadside, demolishing the vehicle. Blackburn, 25, again escaped unharmed.

From the Iowa City Citizen, November 24, 1909 :
Adam Gill was born in Homburg, Germany, in 1828, and came to America in 1854, landing in New York City, where he remained until 1855. While there he met Jacob Hötz Sr., the father of our present alderman. Mr. Gill and several others were considering locating in the west and Mr. Hötz informed them that he was going west. They therefore concluded to wait until they could have a report from him as to the prospect. After reaching Iowa he wrote to them to come, and in 1855 Mr. Gill came to Iowa City and has since resided here. He was married in 1857, and has three sons and two daughters, his wife having died thirtheen years ago. Mr. Gill was a tailor by trade and for many years followed that occupation. In 1866 he opened a restaurant and conducted it until 1884. He is one of the most active members of the German Aid society, taking a keen interest in its affairs. He has held offices in the organization at various times and always very efficiently. He was elected president a number of times during the period of his fifty years of membership.

From the Saint John Sun, Aug 17, 1909 : FAMILY REUNION HELD ON SATURDAY — Fifty Four Gather at Mrs. Straight’s. Cambridge, Queens Co. – Some Members of Family Away From Province 30 Years.
 A very pleasant gathering was held Saturday at the residence of Mrs. Amos Straight, Cambridge, Queens, when the children, grand-children and great-grandchildren, to the number of 54, met to celebrate her 78th birthday. Mrs. Straight is still enjoying the best of health and received many congratulations and valuable gifts. There were present at the gathering five sons and five daughters. They were Mrs. J. A. and Mrs. D. B. Black of St. John, Mrs. R. Mott of Central Cambridge, Mrs. W. Akerley of Portsmouth, and Jennie, at home. Dr. George M. Straight of Winchester, Illinois, Edward M. of St. John, John Malcolm and William of Cambridge. Two sons were absent, Amos of Jacksonville, Illinois, and Fred of Louisiana, Missouri.
 Dr. George Straight, accompanied by his wife and daughter, has been spending the last six weeks at his home on the Washademoak after an absence of 30 years and will leave on Friday next for his home in the middlewest.

From the St. Charles Journal (Oct. 20, 1966): Marine Privates Robert Schierding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Schierding, 502 S. Sixth and Phillip Skinner son of Mr. and Mrs. Armour Skinner, 1100 N. Second, were graduated from recruit training at the Marine Corps Base, San Diego, Cal.

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.)



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.

From the Robertson Family Bible NOTE:......
Henry(Hervey) ROBERTSON b 4 Oct 1768
Elizabeth F.((LOGAN)) ROBERTSON 25 Apr 1774....
Judith b 18 Jul 1799
Thomas b 18 Jul 1801
Milly b Mar 1 1803
Benjamin b 2 Dec 1805
Anthony b 1 Jan 1809
Cornelius b 14 May 1812
Harvy b 19 Sep 1814
George b 8 Mar 1817
Lucinda b 28 Oct 1819......

1810 Federal Census Amherst Co VA page 285, female 1784-94.

BIRTH: Marilyn L KIDD 390 East 7th South Logan UT 84321; corres dated 19 Sep 1996; NOTE: Elizabeth LOGAN b abt 1774.

CORRES:dated 11 Dec 1999 from Mrs Betty SMITH 529 Old Hwy 70, Rockwood TN 37854; to Mr.ROBERTSON; NOTE: ...very pleased to receive your phone call and look forward to sharing the ROBERTSON family history. Enclosed are copies of pages from the ROBERTSON Family Bible which my grandmother gave to me many years ago... small piece of paper tucked into it contains the names: William SMITH...and John FILYOW..knows not how they connect to the family...
1861
[Elizabeth F. ROBERTSON(LOGAN) died the 21st May 1852 AL
Mr. William SMITH Was Bornd in the year of juble 1729
John FILYOW Was Bornd in the years of jubley 1728].

From the Saint John Messenger and Visitor, November 5, 1890 : m. At home of the bride, Oct. 20, by Rev. A.B. MacDonald, Edward M. STRAIGHT / Ella E. COES second d/o Edward COES, all of Cambridge (Queens Co.)

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 s 

From: What happened to Parson John Ambrose and his family? (Joanne Major, 26 March 2014)

Juliana Catherine Colyear’s background and ancestry deserves to be examined and we make no apologies for going off at a tangent here and recording the story of her ancestors. Her mother was Harriet Bishopp, daughter of Colonel Henry (Harry) and Mrs Mary Bishopp of Sussex with illustrious family connections. Colonel Harry was the youngest son of Sir Cecil Bishopp and Harry’s sister Frances was the wife of Sir George Warren. In the September of 1791, at the age of 22, Harriet had married one Henry Jackson, reportedly an ’eminent solicitor’ and the two had settled down to married life. In 1793 Henry Jackson suffered a paralytic stroke and Harriet added the role of nurse to that of devoted wife up until July 1799 when she met Viscount Milsington at a ball thrown by Lady Charles Somerset. Milsington, or Thomas Charles Colyear, was the eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Portmore, his mother being a daughter of the Earl of Rothes and he had been married to Lady Mary Elizabeth Bertie, only child of Brownlow Bertie, the 5th Duke of Ancaster and heir to a fortune. One child had been born of that union, a son named Brownlow Charles Colyear in 1796 and Lady Mary Elizabeth had died the following year.

The acquaintance between Harriet Jackson and Lord Milsington was renewed the following summer at Ascot Races and Harriet passed Milsington off to her husband and his relations as the suitor of one of her unmarried sisters, a ruse that was totally believed by all concerned. Henry Jackson positively encouraged Milsington to spend time with his extended family, even inviting him to stay at his own house, keen to have a sister in law married to an heir to an Earldom, never thinking he was being cuckolded. Months passed and by the summer of 1801 Jackson was beginning to suspect that something was amiss, the expected marriage proposal to Miss Bishopp not having materialized and he ordered his wife to break off the friendship and not to allow him to visit again. He left it to his wife to decide how to break this news to Milsington. Faced with the prospect of having to break off contact with her lover, Harriet was distraught and there was an added complication. She had a child, one that although recognized as the legitimate child of her husband, had been born since she had begun her relationship with Lord Milsington (she had fallen pregnant before this but it had resulted in a miscarriage). Milsington expressed his wish to look after her and her child and on the 4th August 1801 she ran away from her husband’s house and eloped with her lover. It is not known whether she took the child with her.

Henry Jackson instituted a criminal conversation or ‘crim. con.’ trial against Lord Milsington and this was heard on the 9th January 1802. The Miss Bishopp whom Milsington had supposedly been paying his attentions to did not appear, through reasons of delicacy, and various witnesses were examined. They all expressed surprise at the elopement, having no idea of the attachment and no evidence was produced against Milsington apart from a letter to his ‘beloved’ and ‘adored’ Harriet which was found in a drawer of her desk.

I hope most earnestly very soon to see that my beloved Harriet was not the worse for the expedition of yesterday. I wished very much to have called this morning, to have inquired after her, but thought if I did, I should not have the pleasure of passing the evening with the only woman in the world that I have the smallest attachment to, an attachment so strong and fixed, that nothing in the world can alter. I never can be happy till we live together, with that dear little angel that so resembles the figure of its dearest mother; it makes me quite miserable, the thoughts of leaving town; I cannot bear to be separated 

From: History of Lincoln, Oneida, and Vilas Counties Wisconsin (source):
Koth, Reinhold F. proprietor of the Winchester Store in Tomahawk, was born at Reeseville, Dodge, Wis., April 20, 1871, son of August and Louise Koth. The parents were natives of Germany who came to the United States in the late 60’s, Mr. Koth after settling in Reesevile being engaged in farming and blacksmithing, having a shop on his farm. There he subsequently died, and his wife, who survived him, passed away at Lowell, in the same, in 1915. She had married for her second husband Carl Rogga, by whom she had a daughter, Dora, who married Charles Railer and lives in California. Her children by August Koth were: Herman residing in Merrill; Edward, in Milwaukee; Anna, wife of John Huebner of Doyelestown, Wis., Reinhold F., of Tomahawk; George, of Des Moines, Ia.; Oscar, of Milwaukee; Martha, wife of August Lass of Milwaukee, and Louis of Gary, Ind.
 Reinhold F. Koth was reared on the home farm and educated in the district school. His summers up to the age of 18 were spent in agricultural employment, and then, in 1889, he left home and coming to Tomahawk began to learn the tinsmith’s trade with Lamb & Moore, for whom he worked for two years. During the next seven years he was in the employ of Axel Olson, after which he engaged in business for himself, starting a tin and plumbing shop, six months later adding hardware to his stock. This place he sold to the Northern Hardware Co. and was their manager for three years. Then he once more started in for himself and has since continued in the business. He carries a complete line of light and heavy hardware, McCormick and Deering farm implements, trucks, tractors, automobiles and accessories, all kinds of building materials, barn equipment, sewing machines, victrolas, clocks, watches, silverware, pipe and fittings, fertilizer and many other things, and is doing a large business. He also owns a plot of ground 300 x 1330 feet, lying close to Tomahawk, which he has platted as Koth’s Addition, and on which this season he will build cottages for rent and sale. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Tomahawk, the Tomahawk Shoe Manufacturing Co. and the Winchester Firearms Co. His fraternal society affiliations are with the Equitable Fraternal Union and the Maccabees. Mr. Koth was married in Tomahawk, April 19, 1896, to Allie Fogerty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Fogerty, long time residents of Tomahawk. Their married life lasted only about 10 years, as Mrs. Allie Koth died in 1906, leaving one son, Lloyd, born in 1898. The latter entered the naval service of the United States in the World War and trained at Great Lakes, where he was stationed. In 1909 Mr. Koth married secondly, at Des Moines, Ia., Louise Boese, whose father died in Germany and whose mothers resides in Iowa.
Transcribed by Susan Swanson, from pages 579 (with picture); History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties Wisconsin; Compiled by George O. Jones, Norman S. McVean and Others 1924, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.

Gary is Fire Chief at the Struthers Fire Department.

Geoff Rigby moved to Nunavut at the age of two, and grew up in Iqaluit. After graduating from Inuksuk High School, he moved south to study at Ottawa’s Carleton University, and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. As Aarluk’s researcher, Geoff provides support and analysis to projects such as the development of training programs, community economic development plans, wildlife management support, data collection and statistical analysis. His personal interest is in the evolution of environmental and socio-economic support programs, two areas he sees as key to the future of the Territory. Twenty years in Nunavut have given Geoff a deep appreciation of the history, culture and environment that define the Territory, and a sense of pride in the work Aarluk is doing to further its sustainable development.

George and Teresa were married by Rev. J. D. Skinner

George Galloway Town (1972): Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, 1996; B.S., M.S., University of Wisconsin.

George graduated from Tri-State College, Angola, Indiana. He started his career electric welding the seams for caissons to be used in the construction of a bridge spanning the Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville, Kentucky. Later he was employed in the drafting department of the American Car and Foundry Co. Payzant history says m. 1935 Napoleon, Ohio.

George received his B.A. Degree at Brown Universtiy in 1898. He was a newspaper man and managing editor of the Eagle-Tribune, a Mason, Odd Fellow and Rotary Club. The family was Baptist. He resided in Lawrence, Massachusetts. George provided this information to Harry Alexander Davis.

George took part to the battle for possession of Vimy Ridge fought on April 9th through to the 12th, 1917, was a decisive victory for the Allies. It was also a personal success for Canada. The French had tried twice and the British once to seize the ridge prior to April 1917 (Grodzinski, 1).

Source: McAllister, Sandy. “George Pearl Black and the Making of History.” The New Brunswick Reader Saint John, N.B, 12 Nov.1994.

George Walter Terwilliger was an American film director and screenwriter of silent and early sound-era films. He directed 76 films between 1912 and 1936. He also wrote 54 films between 1910 and 1939. He died in Hialeah, Florida. (Source : Wikipedia).

George was a veteran of WWII and Korea (S. Sgt, US Army).

George was Sgt US Air Force (World War II)

Gerry is owner of Palmer Cleanouts & Disposal LLC. See also [LinkedIn].

Gersion Skinner is a veteran of World War II; he was wounded at the battle of the Hürtgen Forest in Germany in october 1944. He graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 1952.

From Mount Vernon Daily Argus (1945): Gerson Skinner In Hospital
 Private First Class Gerson Skinner, twenty-two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick F. Skinner of 25 Pearl Street, who was wounded in the leg by German shell fragments in action in Germany, has been returned to the States and is a patient at the Army’s Thomas M. England General Hospital at Atlantic City.
 Private Skinner has had several operations on his leg and will have another soon. He was wounded last October near Cologne in the same little town from which his grandparents came. He wears the Purple Heart.
 While attending Davis High School he was employed for more than a year in the pressroom at the Daily Argus. Emplyes recently sent a box of goodies to him at the hospital.
 Private Skinner enlisted more than two years ago and trained in Georgie; Fort Mead, Md.; New Orleans, La.; Panama, Colorado and California.
 He saw action in Belgium, France and Germany.

Gisela Manellaub (*; †) was a daughter of the couple Adele and Simon Mandellaub. She emigrated to Palestine with her two brothers in March 1938 and was named Katz after her marriage. (Source)

Gorton James was Professor at Oxford Univ.

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)

Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College Guelph (DVM ’40). Practice in St. John N.B. He won World Championship in Trap Shooting in 1963.

 ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Ken Sedlecky of Baldwin, Mich. won the 20-gauge open World championship of the National Skeet Shooting Association on Thursday by defeating Eddie Tuvo of Montreal.
 Meantime, three Canadians were among 38 competitors shooting 100-straight in the contest for the 12-gauge world title. This shoot will finish Saturday, with 376 entries vying for honors.
 The successful Canadians were Harry Willsie of Montreal, Barney Hartman of St. Lambert, Que., and Forbes MacLeod of Lancaster, NB. (Source: Sakskatoon Star (Phoenix), Aug. 9, 1963)

 ROCHESTER, N.Y. — (AP) [...] Dr. Forbes MacLeod of Lancaster, N.B., went straight on the final day for a 249 out of 250 12-gauge total to win the class B world title. (Source: The Gazette, Aug. 12, 1963)

Greg is machinist at AeroCision (Chester, Connecticut) (2013)

Guestbook entries:
From 1st Cousin: Sorry to hear of Dick’s passing. Always proud of his achievments. My mom was aunt Helen’s sister, Ruth Graham Steffy. — Virginia Winning on September 29, 2013