Sara holds a B.S. (Journalism) from Northwestern University (2001) and a M.S. (nursing) of DePaul University (2011) 

Sarah Drew cannot be found with her widowed mother Hannah in 1880 Census. She probably died before. 

Sarah studied at Cambridge School of Weston, MA (1952-1956). She graduated from Smith College, 1960.
 

Schuyler McClain was born on Absecon Island off the coast of New Jersey. She grew up in Margate in a home adorned with her mother’s numerous and masterful paintings. Schuyler drew inspiration for much of her art work while walking the beaches of the Jersey shore. Schuyler received a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education and a Master of Arts in Environmental Education from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University). She taught elementary art for over thirty years in New Jersey public schools and also taught art at the University of the Arts Saturday School in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Currently retired from teaching in the public schools, she is a working artist and also teaches private and small group art classes in her Moorestown home. Schuyler is a member of the Perkins Center of the Arts and the Burlington County Art Guild. In 2015 she and her daughter Emily illustrated the picture book “Bella Figlia Della Mamma” by Lorraine Haddock. Each page is illustrated with a full page watercolor. The book is written in English and Italian and is available at: https://www.brightideastogo.com. Schuyler’s chosen media includes pen and ink, colored pencil, collage, printmaking and watercolor. Her subject matter usually includes natural subjects such as animals, plants and shells.
 

Scott Craft is a direct descendant of Loyalist John T Craft who served in the volunteer cavalry in Col. DeLancey’s Regiment, is commanding officer of the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s) at Sussex, Kings, NB, the oldest armoured unit of the Canadian Armed Forces, originally founded as the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry in 1848 by the regimentation of a number of independent cavalry troops whose history goes back to cavalry units that served in the American Revolution, in particular to 1775 in the Colony of Virginia, where a Captain John Saunders raised a troop of cavalry (Saunders’ Horse) at his own expense to fight for the Crown against the colonial rebels, which unusual troop included riflemen, grenadiers, artillery and cavalry and never knew defeat until the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1783. In September 1783, Saunders’ horse as an entity was dispatched to New Brunswick where a large number of these Loyalist solders settled in the Saint John and Kennebecasis valleys. The New Brunswick Militia Act of 1825 permitted the raising of cavalry troops by voluntary enlistment for attachment to the various county infantry battalions. Many amongst those who enlisted in these troops were the sons and grandsons of those who served with John Saunders in Virginia. By authority of Militia General Order Number One on 4 April 1848, eleven independent troops were united to from a regiment entitled the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. It is this date that is officially recognized as the formation of the Regiment. The regiment was the first volunteer cavalry regiment in British North America. 

Second Lieutenant William R. Bailey was a member of the 305th Bomb Group, 422nd Bomb Squadron. On July 4, 1943, Bailey was the navigator of a B-17 flown by 1st Lt. Frank W. Scott. Scott’s B-17 was hit and set on fire. Seven crewmembers were able to parachute from the flaming B-17. One of those parachutes was burning. However none of the crew survived. The plane was at least five miles out to sea and even those who parachuted safely must have drowned. Based on an investigation that took place after the war, the entire crew was determined to have died that day.
 

See Wikipedia: John Smith (Conservative politician). 

See Sapulpa Historic Preservation Commission: The Home of Dr. Harry R. Haas and his wife Rose.
Dr. Harry Haas was the first eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Sapulpa. He bought this property in 1923 and had the house build soon afterwards. In addition to being a physician, he was the first commercial manufacturer of bass fishing plugs in Oklahoma. His pattent for “LIV-MINNOW” was granted on July 16, 1935. HAAS TACKLE COMPANY was located in a building in the back yard. His plugs, marketed nationwide from 1933-1939 are now collectors items. In his retirement years, Dr. Haas experimented making plugs frome peanuts, almonds, Pennsylvania butter nuts, native pecans and English walnuts. Dr. Haas died in 1964 and is buried in Sapulpa’s South Heights Cemetery. 

See Moses Hopkinson 

See “Provo High School at Igloo, South Dakota” Class of ’50. 

See :
D. G. Widden, "History of the Town of Antigonish", The Casket, Aug 10, 1934

Douglas Graham writes:
AGE: @ death 81 yrs.
AFN: STPK-BR
SERVANT: Mary Dunn 20 yrs, R Cath, English.; Donald McAngus 22 yrs, farm labourer in 1871 census.
SIBLING: probably Rosina Bigelow who married James Lyons in Cornwallis 10 Apr. 1806. [A.W.H. Eaton, The History of King’s county Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land giving a Sketc h of the French and Their Expulsion, and a History of the New England Planters Who Came in T heir Stead With many Genealogies 1604-1910, Mika, Belleville, 1972. (Salem Press, Salem, 1 910) pp. 738-9] 

Selby went to China where his father (Macy) was an economic advisor to Sun Yat-sen, during the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Apparently Selby was quite bright as a teenager, and the story goes that he was teaching Trigonometry to Chinese in Chinese at the age of sixteen or seventeen. He studied in Cal’Tech and became a Physicist. He resided in Tempe, AZ about 1935. Selby Skinner served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Barrage Balloon, Anti-aircraft Division during World War II (317th Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion. Source The U.S. Army Barrage Balloon Program, by James R. Schock).

From Who’s who in the Midwest, 1958:
SKINNER, Selby M(illmore), educator, b. Boston, July 19, 1905; p. Macy Millmore and Marian (Junkins) S.; B.S., U. Wash., 1929; Ph.D., Cal. Inst. Tech., 1933; m. Charlotte L. Miller, Aug. 10, 1932; children – Dunston, Reid. Instr. Ariz. State Tchrs. Coll., 1932-33, asst. prof., 1933-35; research asso. physics Columbia, 1935-37; asst. prof. U. Chgo., 1937-46; research analyst U.S. Govt., 1947-48; dir. research services to dir. research and development AEC, Chgo., 1948-50; chief scientist Office Deputy for Research and Office Sci. Research, USAF, 1950-52; sr. research asso., prof. lectr, chemistry and chem. engring. Cast Inst. Tech., 1952-54, asso [...]

Obituary from the News-Herald (Ohio), 8 May 2002:

Private services were held for Dr. Selby M. Skinner, 96, of Kirtland.
Dr. Skinner died April 29, 2002, in Kirtland.
 Born July 19, 1905, in Boston, Mass., he lived in Baltimore, Md. before moving to Kirtland 30 years ago. He was a member of American Physics Society, American Chemical Society, American Instructors Aerospace and Astronautics, and also a member of Sigma XI, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi Sigma. Mr. Skinner served six years active duty in World War II and 21 years in the reserves. He served as the Battalion Commander of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and was a member of Barrage Balloons Board. He was also on the Atomic Energy Commission and was Director of Research and Development – Chicago Operations, and Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force. He directed programs in solid-state electronics, electro­mechanical effects of polymers, application of solid-state electronics, lubrication and adhesion, and thermodynamics of charge carrier flow. He consulted and researched properties of polymers and elastomers, electrostatic printing, instrumentation and printed circuits. He was manager of the Corporate Molecular Electronics Program at Westinghouse Defense and Space Center, also working on the Agena Docking Project, and helped develop night vision flying for aircraft during the Vietnam War, and was Senior Advisor in the Studies of Failure Mechanism and Energy Conversion in electronic materials and insulators, and was a research analyst to the United States Government. Dr. Skinner also had various professorships with several different universities. He had 38 patent disclosures, 40 publications in the fields of failure mechanisms, solid-state electronics of insulators, thermodynamics of electrical phenomena, polymer technology and energy conversion.
 Survivors are his sons, Dunston Skinner and Reid Skinner; grandchildren, Jeffrey (Monica) Skinner and Catherine Skinner; and brother, Carlton (Solange) Skinner.
 His wife, Charlotte Lahring Miller Skinner; parents, Macy M. and Marion (Junkins) Skinner; and sister, Barbara Skinner, are deceased.
 Arrangements are being handled by Blessing Cremation Center in Mentor.

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Name: Selby Skinner; Arrival Date: 15 Sep 1923; Port of Departure: Havre; Ship Name: France.
 

September 1932 brings a story on a Depression lottery winner, when 22-year-old “Crete girl” Oma McIlnay wins a $50,000 “Shrine prize” and gives half to Crete Mills receiving clerk Walter Kupfer. She explains she had promised Kupfer half of anything she won. (The fortune was reunited in marriage in 1937.)

Just after their marriage, Oma and Walter moved to Tacoma, Washington, where they decided to start a new life in Motel Waltoma, 9200 South Tacoma Way, Lakewood. The motel was built in 1938 by Walt and Oma Kupfer, hence its unusual name. It was designed by Fred Michel and Fred Michel and Jos. Brewer were the contractors. The Waltoma consisted of six double cottages. Over 2500 persons attended its grand opening beginning July 31, 1938. The sign in front of the motel indicated that it was approved by Duncan Hines, in 1946, and the Automobile Club of Washington. Duncan Hines was a travelling salesman turned food and lodging critic who published a book called “Lodging for a Night” in 1938, extolling the best places to stay while on the road. (Picture taken ca. 1946 – Postcard ca. 1940). 

She died after a traffic accident. 

She graduated from Rockford College (class of 1952). 

She is a graduate of the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx.

From Vision. Sisters of Charity, New York, Volume II, Fall 2007
Annual Retreat – by Kathleen McGrath Skinner
On a beautiful October weekend, a group of Associates gathered at St. Mary’s Villa in Standfordville for their annual retreat. Once again, Sr. Mary E. Mc Cormick was our retreat director. Using the theme “A Spirituality Named Compassion,” we looked at the stories of two women from the Old Testament – Tamar and Hagar – and analyzed how God showed them compassion. Many valuable insights came from sharing ideas and thoughts about these women and their experiences.We also explored the role of women in the New Testament. Much food for thought! During the retreat, there was plenty of time for long walks, reflection and rest. Late Saturday afternoon, we went to the nearby town of Bangall for Mass. It was truly an uplifting experience to be in a small, country church and feel the welcoming spirit there. Our mealtimes were a wonderful opportunity to enjoy each other’s company. As usual, the food was delicious and plentiful. By the time Sunday afternoon arrived, we couldn’t believe that our retreat was over. Plans were made to return next year and we left feeling blessed to be associated with the Sisters of Charity and with each other.
Kathleen Skinner, a former member of the Congregation, has been an Associate since 2004. She is currently training as a Hospice volunteer. One of her two children works for the College of Mount Saint Vincent as Director of Annual Giving.

 

She lived in Dayton, Ohio until her family moved to Mount Vernon, NY. She went to Smith College in Northampton, Mass. 

She lived in Nova Scotia 

She lives with her husband in Calgary. 

She never married. 

She taught school in the public school four years preceding her marriage and 2 years 1923 and 1924 she was County president, Household Science Dept., Ogle, Farmers Institute 

She was a missionary to Central African Republic 

She was the daughter of George and Sarah Brain. 

She was the daughter of Wait B. and Caroline J. Wilson. 

She went to Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
 

Simon Mandellaub (born January 18, 1884 in Kolomea; † October 31, 1941 in the Belzec extermination camp) was a businessman. From 1901 he lived in Heilbronn, then with Austrian citizenship. Allegedly he served in the Austrian army during World War I. In 1918, the entire Mandellaub family received Polish citizenship. Simon Mandellaub, a trained businessman, had two daughters and two sons with his wife Adele. The family lived first at Turmstrasse 14, from 1931 at Gartenstrasse 32, from 1936 at Safe Street 9. Mandellaub temporarily ran three shoe stores, one of which he sold in 1932 or 1933, which was located on Klingenberger Strasse in Böckingen. The other two shops were in Sülmerstrasse 105 and Kirchbrunnenstrasse 12. The latter property belonged to Simon Mandellaub. He was forced to sell them during the Third Reich. Simon Mandellaub’s older children emigrated in March 1938, and a few months later he was deported to Poland with his wife and their youngest daughter Silvia. Simon Mandellaub was able to return to his native Kolomea, where a Jewish ghetto was set up a few years later. From there he was deported to the Belzec extermination camp with his wife and their now twelve-year-old daughter Silvia. The date of death on October 31, 1941 was officially set. (Source)
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Simon Mandellaub, von Beruf Kaufmann, ist am 18. Januar 1884 in Kolomea / Polen geboren. Die galizische Stadt Kolomea, gelegen in der heutigen West-Ukraine, war seit dem 14. Jahrhundert ein Teil Polens, gehörte dann vom 18. Jahrhundert an bis 1918 zur Habsburger Monarchie und war später wiederum polnisch.

Simon Mandellaub lebte seit 1901 in Heilbronn, seine Ehefrau Adele, geb. 10. August 1893, seit etwa 1912. Beide waren damals österreichische Untertanen; Simon Mandellaub soll während des Ersten Weltkriegs im österreichischen Heer gedient haben – diese Angaben machte Gisela Katz geb. Mandellaub in einer eidesstattlichen Versicherung in Israel im Jahr 1953. Nach 1918 bekam die ganze Familie die polnische Staatsangehörigkeit.

Die polnische Regierung erließ im März 1938 ein Gesetz, wonach im Ausland lebende polnische Bürger die Staatsangehörigkeit verloren, wenn sie nicht bis 30. Oktober 1938 nach Polen zurückgekehrt seien. Das gab der NSDAP Veranlassung, im Rahmen der sogenannten „Polen-Aktion“ am 27. und 28. Oktober 1938 50.000 in Deutschland lebende Polen (darunter viele tausend Juden) nach Polen zu deportieren. Es gelang der abgeschobenen Familie Mandellaub, nach Kolomea zurückzukehren, dem Ort, an dem Simon und seine Frau Adele geboren waren, ebenso auch Tochter Gisela und Sohn Markus.

Die ersten Deportationen der sogenannten „Polen-Aktion“ hatten den jungen Juden Herschel Grünspan dazu veranlasst, in Paris den deutschen Legationsrat vom Rath zu erschießen; er sagte später aus, dass seine Eltern als Ostjuden abgeschoben worden seien – damit steht die „Polen-Aktion“ am Beginn der grauenhaften Ereignisse des Novemberpogroms vom 9. und 10. November 1938.

Simon Mandellaub war zeitweilig Inhaber von drei Schuh-Einzelhandelsgeschäften in Heilbronn. Das Hauptgeschäft befand sich in der Sülmerstraße 105, es verfügte über zwei Schaufenster, ein Büro und ein umfangreiches Warenlager. Es sollen dort drei Verkäuferinnen und eine Sekretärin beschäftigt gewesen sein. Ein zweites Schuhgeschäft lag in der Kirchbrunnenstraße 12; Simon Mandellaub und seine Frau Adele waren Eigentümer dieses Hauses, das sie nach 1933 gezwungener Maßen an einen „Arier“ verkaufen mussten.

Ein weiteres Geschäft in der Klingenberger Straße in Böckingen hatte Simon Mandellaub nach Aussage seiner Tochter Gisela schon im Jahr 1932 oder 1933 verkauft.

Das Ehepaar Simon und Adele Mandellaub wohnte zuerst in der Turmstraße 14, ab 1931 zusammen mit den vier Kindern Gisela, Silvia, Markus und Eugen in einer großzügigen 6-Zimmer-Wohnung in der Gartenstraße 32. 1936 zog die Familie in eine ebenfalls bürgerlich eingerichtete Wohnung in der Sichererstraße 9; es habe sich dort auch ein Klavier befunden.

Im März 1938 ist es den drei älteren Kindern Gisela, Markus und Eugen gelungen, nach Palästina auszuwandern; ein halbes Jahr später wurden Simon und Adele Mandellaub mit der damals neun Jahre alten Tochter Silvia im Zuge der „Polen-Aktion“ am 28. Oktober 1938 abgeschoben. Ihren gesamten Besitz (einschließlich der Wohnungseinrichtung und des Warenlagers in der Sülmerstraße) mussten sie zurücklassen. Die Abschiebung erfolgte über Bentschen (Zbąszyń); offenbar gelang es der Familie aber, an den früheren Wohnort Kolomea zurückzukehren. Eine Heilbronner Bekannte gab an, sie habe Frau Mandellaub drei Monate nach der Abschiebung wieder in Heilbronn getroffen, diese habe sich um ihre Möbel kümmern wollen, die untergestellt sein sollten. Nach den Angaben in den Rückerstattungsakten im Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg ließen sich die untergestellten Möbel jedoch nicht mehr finden.

Nach dem Einmarsch der deutschen Wehrmacht im August 1941 wurde in Kolomea ein Ghetto errichtet, in dem zeitweilig 18.000 Juden lebten; 16.000 von ihnen wurden in das Vernichtungslager Belzec deportiert. Hier verliert sich die Spur von Adele und Simon Mandellaub und ihrer nun 12-jährigen Tochter Silvia; ein exaktes Todesdatum ist nicht bekannt, amtlicherseits wurde der 31. Oktober 1941 festgelegt.

Die drei älteren Kinder von Adele und Simon Mandellaub lebten nach ihrer Einwanderung in Palästina: Gisela hieß nach ihrer Heirat Katz, Max Markus Mandellaub nannte sich später Mordechai Markus Schkedi und aus Eugen Mandellaub wurde Izchak Schkedi. Beide Söhne lebten in einem Kibbuz und waren beteiligt am Aufbau mehrerer Kibbuzim. 2011 war ein Sohn von Eugen Schkedi / Mandellaub mit seiner Familie zu Besuch in Heilbronn. 

SKINNER, Roland Herbert Lawrence, Merchant, A. O. Skinner. Born St. John, N. B., Feb. 27, 1884, son of Alfred O. and Margaret Skinner. Married Hazel R. Hall, Sept. 30, 1911. Educated St. John, N. B. Member Masonic Fraternity; member Royal Arcanum; member Westfield Country Club. Episcopalian. Address, 58 King St., St. John, N. B. (Source: Prominent People of the Maritime Province, 1922). 

SKU 16(3)82 Compendium of Biography pages 334-338 South Dakota State Archives 900 Governors Dr. Pierre, SD 57501-2217 WILLIAM HENRY SKINNER, whose portrait will be found on another page, is a pioneer of Brookings, and to him belongs the credit for doing more, probably, than any other individual in the building up of Brookings city and county.
 Mr. Skinner, always a broad minded and public spirited man, has had the interests of his chosen city at heart ever since he first arrived upon the wild Dakota prairie, where Brookings now stands, in 1873. His history is part of the history of South Dakota, and were the early events in which he figured prominently to be written of at length they might easily fill a volume.
 Mr. Skinner was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, on the 24th of July, 1851. He is the son of Henry and Ruth A. (Ilsley) Skinner, of whom sketches will be found upon another page of this work. Mr. Skinner received an elementary education in the public schools of Nova Scotia, and later attended Acadia college, which is now the University of Nova Scotia. He taught school for two years in Nova Scotia, and at the age of eighteen came with his parents to Iowa, where he resumed his professional labors.
 In June, 1873. Mr. Skinner came to Brookings, locating at first in Trenton township, where he homesteaded a claim and pre-empted another, making in all three hundred and twenty acres of rich land which he acquired. This was converted into a large farm, and remained in Mr. Skinner’s possession until 1893, when he sold it, his other interests having become so large that they required all of his time and attention. One of the most important services, among the many which he rendered to Brookings county was getting the Chicago & North-Western railway to establish a station at Brookings. This was no easy task, as a railroad in those days was something of a seventh wonder among most of the folk who lived in that region, and they were in the habit of letting the officials do about as they pleased.
 Mr. Skinner purchased about two hundred and forty acres of land at Brookings while the place was; yet virgin prairie. His intention was to make it the site of a future great city; and as a preliminary step, to secure a station on the North-Western road on or near his land and secure the location of the county seat at this place. The whole idea was daring in its’ conception, an still more so in its execution. This projector after securing the assistance and cooperation of the leading citizens of the county went before the officers of the road represented to them the future of the city and it’s advantageous location, and closed by offering one hundred and sixty acres of land to them if they would agree to add Brookings to the line and build a station there. It was thus finally a arranged through Mr. Skinner’s zeal, though the engineers and some of the high a officials protested against the move the county commissioners were at once petitioned to submit to a vote the question of location of county seat, which resulted in Brookings being selected by a good majority. This was merely one of the clever coups which Mr. Skinner executed in the days. His farsightedness and ability showed in his next move. After securing assurances that the railroad station located at Brookings, he advertised the fact very extensively, and also made it known that there was a town named Brookings, and that he had several acres of town lots to sell. So well was the matter arranged that people soon began to inquire about the lots, and finally to purchase them and from that time forth Brookings began from the condition of a hamlet into the proud estate of a city. It was Mr. Skinner and his property that started the city, and to him alone is due the credit of originating and carrying out the project.
 In 1879 Mr. Skinner’s services were partially recognized. and he was appointed to the office of clerk of the district court. The county seat was then at Medary, a very diminutive hamlet, which has since become but a memory. Mr. Skinner immediately took his office paraphernalia upon assuming the office and conveyed it to the new town, Brookings. This startling move had an immediate effect, for all a other county officers forthwith followed in his footsteps, and soon the city which Mr. Skinner had laid out became the official capital of Brookings county, a title which it poss-esses to the present day.
 Mr. Skinner has since devoted most of his time to real estate and business ventures, all of which have been successful, and he is, of course, in very easy circumstances. He has not relaxed his efforts in behalf of the city, however, and is still one of its most active and energetic residents.
 In 1896 he, with a number of others, incorporated the Brookings Cooperative Creamery Company and he is at present one of the largest stockholders. This company was organized, as its name implies, upon the cooperative basis, and for the benefit of the farmers, who thus have a direct and personal interest in all of it’s concerns. Up to the present time it has met with great success. Mr. Skinner was one of the promoters of the Masonic Temple, which is one of the finest brick business blocks in the city. The second floor contains the finest suite of lodge rooms in the state.
 During 1886-87 Mr. Skinner was one of the Trustees of the State Agricultural college. He served two years and it was largely through his efforts that one of the largest and finest buildings on the campus was erected. Mr. Skinner is a free-silver Republican politically, and has held a num-ber of public offices. In addition to being clerk of the courts and a trustee of the agricultural college, he was postmaster of Brookings from 1891 to ’95. He is prominent in secret society affairs, and is a member of the blue lodge, chapter, commandery and council of the Masonic fraternity, also a leader of the M. W. A. and the A. O. U. W.
 Mr. Skinner married Miss Elizabeth A. Laird, April 13, 1873 She was the daughter of James and Margaret Laird, and was a native of Chickasaw, Iowa. Mrs. Skinner died in July, 1886, leaving five children: Ansel 0., who is now manager of the Creamery at Pierpoint, South Dakota; Agnes A., a teacher of Yankton; Charles H., Guy E. and May E.
Mr. Skinner remarried February 29 1888, his bride being Georgia A. Laird a cousin of his first wife. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner a re the parents of four children now living. They are: Catharine, Ruth A., Rae G. and Grant. 

Soldat au 100e Régiment d’Infanterie. Tué à l’ennemi. 

Soldat au 11e Régiment d’Infanterie. Mort pour la France (tué à l’ennemi). 

Son of James A. Haverstock.
Company C, 25th Massachusetts Infantry.
James enlisted in Company C, Massachusetts 25th Infantry Regiment on 17 Oct 1861 and mustered out on 19 Nov 1863 at Newport News, VA. In June 1879, a military headstone was ordered and delivered to Hope Cemetery for him, showing his unit and date of death. 

SOURCE
LDS # 485323 LOGAN Family volume 13 pgs 0-4 & 8
Anthony Malone LOGAN’s family came from Overton Co TN to Pulaski Co MO 25 Dec 1854.
James Alexander died unmarried.
BIBLE: ROBERTSON FAMILY BIBLE 

Source Twis and Trees. 

Source from Donald Elenkotter: Carrie M. Skinner, b. Roxbury, MA 13 September 1865, daughter of Edwin [sic] M. Skinner and Caroline E. Mair.

Source from Donald Elenkotter: Carrie M. Skinner, b. Roxbury, MA 13 September 1865, res. Jamaica Plain, MA, applied for a passport at Boston on 2 May 1901.

Source from Donald Elenkotter: Carrie M. Skinner, d. Newton, MA 14 January 1928 [Newton, MA directory, 1929]. 

Source:
Decendants of Peter Manning of Nova Scotia 

Source: Deborah Astley 

Source: Descendants of Thomas MacKennan. 

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sleeping Giant is awake by Bruce Elliot – Guest Columnist, Monday, May 8, 2006.
 Last Monday afternoon in Mount Vernon, there was a small-town “immigration march” similar to those organized and staged in Seattle and elsewhere around the country. It was a peaceful, orderly procession of people carrying American and Mexican flags, signs, placards, bull horns, etc., making their presence known and briefly disrupting local traffic.
 I had two very mixed feelings: first, a huge pride in this country -- that this great nation is a powerful magnet for people who truly want to be here at huge risk to themselves, and more so, that only in America is it possible for such a gathering to occur, for masses of people who have entered the country illegally to assemble and speak freely of their demands.
 But second, I have an increasing anger and resentment at our government that, by its ineffectiveness and inaction, has allowed this to happen: a de facto invasion by about 12 million foreign nationals (like the number of marchers, no one really knows for sure) who have bypassed the legal immigration procedures, yet who now want -- and blatantly feel entitled to -- equal status, all because of spineless politicians (weak laws and enforcement) and greed for the Almighty Dollar (cheap labor and produce).
 Awaken the Sleeping Giant? I hope so -- including me, and countless other complacent Americans who have become aware of the scope of the problem. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year screening arrivals at international airports and other ports of entry, on the Border Patrol, and on Customs and Immigration Services, etc., for what? These highly visible and expensive efforts do little good if there are huge holes that permit illegal entry that goes unenforced.
 Where were federal immigration officers during these marches? And why aren’t local law enforcement agencies more involved? Don’t they declare an oath to support and defend the Constitution and to enforce the laws of the land, and if so, why aren’t they doing their duty?
 I heard not one instance of an illegal immigrant being arrested or detained anywhere during these demonstrations. Why not? Yet a container load of Chinese nationals arrives by ship recently in Seattle, and Immigration is all over them; they are immediately detained, and processed for deportation. What’s the difference here, other than grossly selective law enforcement?
 I am married to a legal immigrant (Germany). My wife spent years going through all the hoops and hurdles of the legal process to gain entry and become a U.S. citizen. I sympathize with those who have successfully penetrated our borders illegally for a better life, but in the face of avoiding the legal process -- and the serious objectives of Homeland Security and drug enforcement -- they cannot be simply gifted the privilege of amnesty and citizenship.
 It isn’t right and it isn’t fair to all those who have done it the legal way. And as history has shown in the long run, it doesn’t work for us; it works against us.
 We all have to understand and accept the fact there are millions and millions more disadvantaged individuals who would give up everything to gain a better life here, and that we simply cannot absorb them all, legally or illegally. Our borders have to be made secure and impenetrable; the legal immigration procedures have to be made workable and then followed and enforced; and the situations that have created the problems we have today have to be resolved quickly. If we do not do this, and fail to demand that it be done, the flood of illegal immigrants will continue ad infinitum, and we will all pay a much higher price downstream.
 Bruce Elliot lives in La Conner, Wash. 

Source: Our Wedding – Beth & Paul. 

Source: Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention
AMHERST. – Jonathan S. Lewis, Republican; born in Boston, Mass., November 14, 1864; educated at the Newton Theological Institution; Baptist minister; married, four children; member of the A.O.U.W. and patrons of Husbandry; president of Amherst Athletic Association, trustee of town trust funds and of town library; member of the House of Representatives in 1915 and 1917; President N. H. Anti-Saloon League; appointed state agent for the enforcement of the Prohibitory liquor law whose enactment he was foremost in securing and which was known as the “Lewis Bill.”

Source : The Simmons Quarterly, 1911.
A son, Frederick Woodward, was born in August to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Lewis (Pearl Woodward).

Source : The Simmons Quarterly, 1919.
Rev. and Mrs. J. S Lewis (Pearl Woodward) of Amherst, NH, announce the birth of a second son, Jonathan Snow, Jr. 

Source: A Peace Candle from Surrey, BC, 22 May, 2005.
On Sunday 22 May 2005, former Summerlea member Heather (Maxwell) Fedele, husband Derrick and sons Ryan and Michael visited their Lachine stomping grounds to celebrate the 75th birthday of Derrick’s mother Pauline. They took the opportunity to bring with them a Peace Candle for Summerlea from Northwood United Church in their current home of Surrey, BC.
 They arrived at Summerlea during coffee hour after the service and presented the candle to Summerlea minister Howard Clark. Howard took the opportunity to make a brief ceremony in the sanctuary, with Heather’s parents Frank and Judy Maxwell of Wolfville, N.S., also former Summerlea members, looking on. The Candle will be presented to the Summerlea congregation officially next Sunday.
 Following are a few snapshots, which are pickable to see a larger version. 

Source: Memories from the Late Sixties: Frank Maxwell and Daughter Heather, October 2002.
Frank and Judy Maxwell and offspring Heather, David and Jim, lived in Lachine and attended Summerlea from 1965 to 1970 and again from 1975-1977. During their first stay, Frank was Sunday School Superintendant from 1968 to 1970. Frank offers some memories from his Wolfeville, NS retirement location, with help from Heather, who now lives in Vancouver.
 My recollections of Summerlea’s Sunday School are very few, which is surprising [at least...to me (o_o) ]. I’ll try to re-activate some with a phone call to Heather this evening. Her memory of our times in Lachine is usually in diary-like detail, so I’m hopeful...
 I can remember the Sunday morning assemblies in the large room with the stage (Acadia Hall). Eleanor [Warren] Fletcher was our pianist. Her father was Herb Warren, the former airline pilot, who still retained his bright "pilots’ eyes". Her father-in-law was Pat Fletcher, the last Canadian professional golfer to win the Cdn. Open...sometime in the 1930’s.
 Obviously the S.S. pianist made a strong impression on me! However, I do I remember that Huntly Bourne was the superintendent of the Jr. Dept. [and hit a massive home run with one of my pitches in a softball game at a church picnic].
 Cec King taught in the S.S., but I remember his being in the church choir when we returned to Summerlea in 1975-77.
 I recall a debate that I "moderated" between two or three S.S. teachers and our youth group ? It had a huge turn-out, and was an absolute disaster - at least as far as the adult debaters were concerned. The representatives of the youth group really "beat up" on us! Ed Jamieson was one of the adult debaters, and went home "feeling as if someone had hit him over the head with a baseball bat ". Ed was someone whom I liked and respected a great deal: very distinguished looking, with classy half-glasses. (Ed. Note: Ed Jamieson and Huntly Bourne also started the country store in the bazaar around that time.)
 The youth group leader was Bob Bennett, the son of Dick, a really nice guy who died in the late 1970’s. Dick taught in the S.S. as well. Bob was a super guy - very bright and personable, and I still picture them both with high regard.
 I do recall the large mesh cross that Ester Anderson mentioned, with the children coming down the church’s centre isle with their flowers for it. Could this have been part of our Easter services...? (Ed. Note: Nancy and Huntly Bourne also recall a large mesh cross. There is some confusion as to whether it was used at Easter, Mother’s Day or Flower Sunday.)
 I had a great phone conversation with Tom Miles while we were visiting Heather in November. Tom is the interim minister at Duncan and they enjoy their grandparenting opportunities.

Memories from Heather Maxwell, via Frank
S.S. teachers: Bernice Gowdy [and one of her daughters, Meg]. (By the way, I (Frank) used to see Jim Gowdy in Toronto, where he was the corporate secretary for Sun Life.)
Muriel McWilliams [her son Foster is part of Heather’s Vancouver network],
Dorothy Lowe, Hunt Bourne, Don Black [he also was a scout leader], and Lois Steckley.
Other family names from Summerlea: Mary Moreland [remember her younger brother, Peter : the happy-go-lucky imp ?], bruce Chown, Ann Park, Ron MacKay and his son bruce, Karen Saliewitz, the Trites [Heather continues to stay in touch with Sue], the Kiersteads, and the Edwards.
 Our favourite caretaker was Mr. Gillass, and we can remember how pleased he was with the S.S.’s Christmas gift one year. Judy and I once visited with him and his wife, at his home.

Heather also remembers helping me post the S.S. offering for each pupil, in my "big ledger", before turning the proceeds over to Ron MacKay.
Cheers,
Frank 

Source: Traveler’s joy (June 2010).
Seth Marcus & Alison Hulette
Hi everybody,
First off, we’d like to say that your presence at our wedding is the greatest gift we could ask for. The time, effort, and expense of traveling to be with us is something we deeply appreciate in our hearts, and we are so thrilled that we will be able to celebrate this happy occasion with you.
Although we have already reserved our stay at a Riviera Maya resort, we thought a honeymoon “excursion/activity” registry would provide our guests an opportunity help us make our perfect honeymoon come true. It is because of the lifetime of memories we will gain from this trip that we decided to include a honeymoon registry. We greatly appreciate and will fondly remember these gifts for years to come. After all, the memories and photos from swimming with whale sharks or climbing ancient ruins will last longer than that blender or towel rack from Target (Although Ali may tell you to go with the towel rack if it gets her out of swimming with whale sharks).
We’ll do our best to document our experience via photo and include it in your much-deserved “thank you” note.
Thanks again and we can’t wait to see you at the wedding (or earlier!).
Love,
Seth & Ali 

Source: Descendants of Francis Le Baron of Plymouth, Mass. 

Source: When the Lions Fed – Saint John Hostages in Congo (1964)
Article n. 310 by Ronald J. Jack (Public Historian and Web-publisher)

 In the summer of 1954, Sonia Black and David Grant were married in an obscure little church in West Saint John. She was 28 and he was 29. On the provincial registration document, beside "Occupation", each of them entered "Missionary". They had signed up for language courses and were preparing to devote their lives to mission work in the Belgian Congo. What they got themselves into, and who got them out, make for an interesting story. It is history worth preserving.
 [...]
 The pair of star-crossed missionaries were Saint Johners, through and through. Sonia Black was a Valley-girl, having lived at 262 City Road, almost in the shadow of the General Public Hospital. In fact after graduating from Saint John High School she enrolled in the Nursing School at the General, and was Class Valedictorian in 1947. She received her theological training at the Prairie Bible Institute at Three Hills, Alberta., a western institution with links to many churches in the Maritimes. Her Dad had been a gunner in one of the Siege Batteries in WW1 and returned to work with the C.P.R. Her mother had been office staff with T.S. Simms in Fairville.
 David Grant hailed from Red Head, just east of the city. He was a graduate of the Vocational High School on Douglas Avenue, and the practical knowledge he acquired there served him well in Africa where he built a seminary and a school. After graduation he took theological training with the Atlantic Bible Institute at Hampton Station, N.B. After falling for Sonia he proposed twice. The second proposal was that they devote their married lives to mission work, and their application was accepted by the Unevangelized Field Mission. The U.F.M. was a Christian umbrella group utilizing volunteers from multiple denominations and countries.
 Over the years tens of thousands of Canadians have washed up in some of the world’s danger zones, got in trouble, and had to be rescued. There is drama in bad luck, certainly, but precious little heroism. With Sonia and David Grant we have a different story. They were forced out of Congo by revolutionary blood letting, but could not sit on their hands in Canada while their students, patients an friends were under threat. After a period of recuperation in Saint John, consultation with family, and no doubt plenty of prayers, they went back in. They passed the test of character and they do qualify as Canadian heroes. [continue here…] 

Source: Military Times, Hall of Valor — The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain Anthony A. Akstin (MCSN: 0-9480), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Commanding Officer of Company K, Third Battalion, Third Marines, THIRD Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Guam, Marianas Islands, 23 July 1944. Skillfully and swiftly launching a surprise attack on a commanding ridge, Captain Akstin seized the objective with a minimum loss to his rifle company and, despite heavy hostile machine gun fire, organized defenses against an impending counterattack. When an enemy machine gun emplacement opened fire on his company, causing six casualties and threatening his position, he courageously led an attack which accounted for thirteen Japanese and silenced the enemy guns. Receiving a serious wound in the head, he refused to be evacuated until the ridge was secured and the defenses firmly established. His leadership, perseverance and gallant devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

Source: Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire (2013) — Mary Behnke, commonly known as “Lee”, received her B.A. from Smith College. She has Master’s degrees from Tufts University and Harvard University. Having spent twelve years at the University of Chicago where she was Director of the Undergraduate Latin Program and a coordinator of the Great Books Humanities sequence, she returned to the East Coast in 2009. Her academic interests include Latin poetry, the Augustan Age and the Classical Tradition in Literature. She has led student trips to Italy, Greece and Spain and she has taught in Rome, Athens and Barcelona on the Civilization programs run by the University of Chicago. The Classical Association of Massachusetts named her Teacher of the Year and upon her departure from the University of Chicago, the Mary Lee Behnke prize was established for excellence in teaching and mentoring. Mrs. Behnke enjoys theater, opera, cooking and cats. She has been found occasionally sewing patches on pirate costumes at the Exeter theater department. 

Source: Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C.
 Ian Carleton joined the firm in February 2003 and is a principal of the firm. He regularly represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil and criminal matters in state and federal court, with a particular focus on disputes over intellectual property rights including patent and copyright infringement, breach of contract and consumer fraud.
 Mr. Carleton is a graduate of Yale Law School and Columbia College. He is admitted to practice in the State of Vermont, the Federal District Court of Vermont, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and has been admitted to practice pro hac vice in both state and federal court in Massachusetts. He is currently a member of the American Bar Association, the Vermont Bar Association, and the Vermont Trial Lawyers Association.
 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Carleton served as law clerk to the Honorable William K. Sessions, III, Chief Judge of the Federal District Court of Vermont. From 2002 to 2007 Mr. Carleton was an elected member of the Burlington City Council, serving as Council President from 2005-2007. From 2005 to 2009 he served as State Chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party. Email: icarleton@sheeheyvt.com.

Source: Ian Carleton, Burlington City Councilor, Ward One – Biography
 Ian Carleton was elected to the Burlington City Council in March, 2002. He currently serves as Chair of the City’s Ordinance Committee, and also serves on the Community and Economic Development Committee. Prior to being elected to the Council, Carleton was a member of the Burlington Planning Commission. He lives with his wife Brooke and their daughter Lila Jane on Calarco Court in Burlington, Vermont, near the Winooski Bridge.
Ian grew up in central Vermont and eastern Massachusetts. He graduated from Columbia College in New York in 1993 with a degree in Comparative Literature. His first job after college was as a kindergarten teacher.
 In 1996, after two years of teaching and one year of graduate study in literature, Carleton entered Yale Law School. During his three years at Yale Law Carleton immersed himself in clinical legal work and public service. As director of the Housing and Community Development Clinic, he helped start a community owned daycare center in a crack infested neighborhood near the law schools campus and taught legal rights classes to teen parents at one of New Haven’s high schools. As director in the Legislative Advocacy Clinic, he worked primarily on the Connecticut Property Tax Relief Project. In that project, Carleton studied property tax systems from all over the country – including Vermont’s Act 60 – in an effort to come up with workable solutions to Connecticut’s inequitable property tax system. Carleton also served as Treasurer and Board member for The Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale, a nonprofit organization charged with funding start-up legal projects all over the country which focus on representing disadvantaged individuals and groups. In his third year in law school, Carleton taught a student-faculty workshop called Corporations, the Environment, and Human Rights, that examined how American corporate law affects labor, cultures and ecosystems domestically and internationally.
 Upon graduating from law school Carleton clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge William K. Sessions, III in Burlington, Vermont. After completing his clerkship, Carleton spent the 2001 legislative session as an affiliate council to the Vermont Public Interest Research Group working on campaign finance reform. After the Session, he then joined the Burlington law firm of Hoff Curtis, P.C. There, Carleton focused on indigent criminal defense, taking on a contract with the state of Vermont to represent a certain allotment of its public defender caseload.
 During that time, Carleton was also appointed to Vermont’s Criminal Justice Act panel, which permitted him to represent indigent clients in federal court. In that capacity, in late 2002 Carleton tried and won the first not guilty verdict in a federal criminal trial in Burlington since Judge Sessions took the bench in 1996.
 In early 2003, in order to broaden his practice to include more civil litigation and transactional work, Carleton took a position as an associate at Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C., where he works presently.
 Sports and music have always been integral to Carleton’s life. As a young boy, Ian competed in the traditional sport of his rural New England roots, ski jumping.
 As a teenager, tennis became his sport of choice. Throughout his teenage years, Carleton was ranked in the top five for his age in New England. In 1986 he won the New England championships for boys aged 14 and under. In 1988, as Captain of the Brookline High School Tennis Team, he was awarded the honor of national high school All-American.
 After injuries forced him from the sport of tennis, Carleton began long distance running, and ran both the New York and Boston Marathons in 1992 and 1993. Running evolved into an enthusiasm for triathlon, which, in turn, evolved into a love of bicycle racing.
 During law school, Carleton was Captain of the Yale Cycling Team, which, under his leadership, won the Ivy League Championships and placed eighth at the National Collegiate Cycling Championships in Greenville, South Carolina. Carleton himself was ranked 28th overall nationally in 1998. Once he returned to Vermont, Carleton raced for the Green Mountain Bicycle Club on their top amateur squad.
In 2002, with the birth of his daughter, sports took a back seat to fatherhood. However, in 2003, Carleton rediscovered his enthusiasm for triathlon, competing both in the Shelburne Olympic Distance Triathlon and the Firm-Man Half-Ironman Triathlon in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Carleton is presently training for the 2004 Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon.
 Music has also been a critical component to Carleton’s life. Growing up, Carleton sang and played acoustic and electric guitar in garage bands. In the late 1990’s he developed an enthusiasm for bluegrass and traditional American and Irish folk music. His first bluegrass band was The Professors of Bluegrass. Arriving in Burlington, he joined an old high school friend and formed the Ridgerunners, playing several shows at Higher Ground, at weddings, and on town greens around Vermont and upstate New York.
 Carleton and his wife, Brooke Miller Carleton, were married on October 5, 2001 in the West Brookfield Church, where Ian went to church as a boy.Lila Jane Carleton was born on January 3, 2002 in the early afternoon at Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington.
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source: American Women. The Official Who’s who Among the Women of the Nation, 1935. p. 37
BEACH, Marian Weymouth (Mrs. George W. Beach), educator; b. Lawrence, Mass., July 23, d. George Selby and Josephine (MacDuffee) Junkins; m. Macy Milmore Skinner, Sept 19, 1903; m. 2nd George Wilson Beach, July 31, 1933 ; Hus. occ. retired ; ch. Selby M. Skinner, b. July 19, 1905; Barbara (Skinner) Gilmore, b. Nov. 19, 1907: Carlton G. Skinner, b. Apr. 8. 1913. Edn. AB, Radcliffe Coll., 1903; attended Stanford Univ. ; Middlebury Coll. ; AM Columbia Univ.; 1923. Previously: Prof. of Eng. and dean of women, Dubuque Univ.; dir., Katherine Gibbs Sch., Boston, Mass. Church: Congregational. Politics: Republican. Mem. DAR ; PEO ; Nat League of Am. Pen Women. Author: School Text.

Source : Who’s who in the East, 1942. p. 63
BEACH, Marian Weymouth Skinner (Mrs. George W. Beach), secretarial educator; b. Lawrence, Mass.; d. George Selby nnd Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins; BA, Radcliffe; M.A., Columbia, 1922; postgrad. Stanford, 1907-08, Middlebury Coll., summer 1906, Marburg U. (Germany), summer 1904; m. Macy Milmore Skinner, Sept. 19, 1903 (div. 1920) ; children – Selby Millmore, Barbara (Mrs. Max Mandellaub), Carlton ; m. 2d. George Wilson Beach, July 31, 1933. Tchr. pub. schs. 1914-16, Dubuque (Ia.) High Sch., 1918-19 ; prof. English, dean women Dubuque U., 1919-22 ; dir. Katherine Gibbs Sch., 1925-27; founder Weylister Jr. Coll (in association with Miss Louise Scott), 1927.

Book: The Bent Twig Author: Canfield, Dorothy. New York: Henry Holt and, 1916.
480 p. published also under the name: Mrs. Dorothea Frances (Canfield) Fisher or Dorothy Canfield Fisher. With introduction and notes by Marian W. Skinner, New York, H. Holt and, 1946.

Source: California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957 Name: Marian W. S. Beach; Arrival date: 11 Apr 1949; Port of Departure: Antwerp, Belgium; Ship Name: Dalerdyk.

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Name: Marian W. Beach; Arrival date: 14 Jul 1951; Port of departure: Liverpool, England; Ship Name: Parthia.

Mrs. Beach Visiting Carlton Skinners After Year Abroad — Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Skinner of Belevedere have as their guest Mr. Skinner’s mother. Mrs. George Beach of Los Altos, who returned last week after a year’s residence in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Beach will join her later and they plan to take an apartment on Belvedere lagoon. The Skinners, with their children, Franz and Andrea, returned to Belvedere last summer after 3.1/4 years in Guam, where Mr. Skinner was the governor. He has left government service and is now with a steamship line. (Source: Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California, January 20, 1954, page 19)

Mrs. Beach Returns From 3-Month Trip — Mrs. Marian Skinner Beach of Belvedere has recently returned from a three-months trip. Leaving her home in mid- March, she spent a weekend with her son, Professor Selby M. Skinner, in Cleveland and then went on to Washington, D.C. where she was a delegate to the Biennial Conference of the National League of American Pen Women. From there she flew to Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, seeing Several friends on the way. At St. Thomas she boarded a ship for a trip down the east coast of South America, stopping at Rio de Janeiro., Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Flying from there to Santiago, Chile, she sailed north to Panama, making stops at Lima, Peru; Guayaquil, Buena Ventura and Balboa. From there she flew to San Francisco via Guatamala City. Mrs. Beach is also the mother of Carlton Skinner, former Governor of Guam, now executive assistant to the President of the American President Lines. (Source: Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California, July 4, 1956, page 18)