Rowena is a graduate of Gallaudet University (Class Year: 1959). She was a teacher at Illinois School for the Deaf, Jacksonville, Illinois.

Roxanne graduated from the University of Moncton (NB).

Roy Soll, son of William and Dora Boyens Soll, was born August 9, 1926, on a farm 1 1/2 miles north of Aspinwall. He moved with his folks to the Manilla area and then back to Aspinwall. He married Ruth Starner, daughter of Herbert and Aura (Gill) Starner of Shelby, Iowa, June 4, 1948. Ruth was born in Council Bluffs May 26, 1927.

They are the parents of two sons. James married Charlotte Joens, and they have a son, Ronald, and a daughter, Barbi; Jim is working for United Telephone Company and lives in Audubon. Allen married Malia Hansen, and they have a son, Adam; Allen is working for Horizon Hybrids in Manilla.

Roy spent nearly 15 years in the trucking business; he managed the propane business in Manning for Phillips Petroleum Company and Union Gas from 1960 to 1969, and now has his own business in Aspinwall of plumbing, heating, and electrical work.

Ruth has spent many years teaching. She taught in a rural school west of Avoca, in the Irwin school, rural school north of Aspinwall in Hayes Township, rural school south of Manning in Ewoldt Township, in the Gray school under the Audubon school system, and is presently teaching sixth grade in the Audubon Community School.

Roy went to the Roxbury Latin School (1893-1897), and graduated from Harvard University: A.B.; D.M.D., 1909 (Tufts Dental School). He is a dentist (as his father). After his father suicide, he lived by his uncle Edward M. Skinner.

From Harvard College. Class of 1897, Second Report (June 1902) :
ROY CHURCHILL SKINNER – Since graduation I have been employed with the Carter’s Ink Company of 172 Columbus Avenue, Boston.

From Harvard College. Class of 1897, Third Report (June 1907) :
RAY CHURCHILL SKINNER – Up to three years ago I was in the employ of the Carter Ink Company of Boston. I spent a year as manager of Washington Court, Cambridge, on leaving this concern. I am at present studying for a degree in Dentistry.

From Quindecennial 1897-1912, Fourth Report – Harvard College (April 1912) :
ROY CHURCHILL SKINNER – After graduating I entered the employ of the Carter’s Ink Company of Boston. On leaving this concern I spent a year as manager of Washington Court, Cambridge. In the fall of 1906 I began the study of dentistry at the Tufts College Dental School. Since graduation in 1909, have been practising this profession in Boston, at 118 Commonwealth Avenue.

From Harvard College, Class of 1897 – Report V (June, 1917) :
ROY CHURCHILL SKINNER
Born at Dedham, Mass., Oct. 8, 1874.
Parents Joseph Crandall, Alice F. (Gilbert) Skinner.
School: Roxbury Latin School.
Years in College: 1893-97.
Degrees: A.B.; D.M.D. 1909 (Tufts Dental School).
Married: A.B.; D.M.D. 1909 (Tufts Dental School).
Child: Joseph Churchill, Nov. 15, 1913.
Occupation: Dentist.
Address: (business) 29 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.; (home) 10 Heckle St., Wellesley Hills, Mass..
 The advent, in 1913, of a prospective Harvard man has been the most important event in my affairs since the publication of the last report.
 A fairly prolific garden has occupied my leisure hours in an endeavor to reduce the High Cost of Living. I have alos been interested in dental affairs as a whole, and have served for the last three years, as secretary of the Metropolitan District of the Massachusetts Dental Society.

From Harvard college, class of 1897. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report (1922) :
ROY CHURCHILL SKINNER — Born at Dedham, Mass., Oct. 8, 1874. Son of Joseph Crandall and Alice F. (Gilbert) Skinner. School: Roxbury Latin School. Years in college: 1893-97. AB; DMD 1909 (Tufts Dental School). Married: Ethel Hersey Macomber, Sept. 4, 1909, Boston, Mass. Child: Joseph Churchill, Nov. 15, 1913. Died at Wellesley Hills, Mass., Oct. 10, 1919.
 Roy Churchill Skinner entered Harvard in the fall of 1893. In the years immediately following his graduation in 1897, he held several mercantile positions, but a characteristic super-sensitiveness to the rights of others made the keen competition of business life distasteful to him.
 He consequently determined to follow his late father’s profession of dentistry, and in 1906 entered the Tufts College Dental School. After receiving his degree in 1909, he practiced his profession in Boston, continuing with increasing success until his death, Oct. 10, 1919. He He married Ethel Hersey Macomber Sept. 4, 1909, and their son, Joseph Churchill, was born Nov. 11, 1913.
 Roy Skinner’s genial, sincere, and generous temperament quickly endeared him to those with whom he came in contact both professionally and socially. The remarkable fund of energy he possessed enabled him to accomplish much in his vocation and in his hours of play, which he loved to spend on or near salt water. During his last months, when he suffered from an obscure disease which he knew was incurable, he carried on the  

Rufus D., eldest son of Capt. David Lyons and Jane B. Dixon Lyons, was also a shipmaster and excelled in his profession. He married Miss Emily Miles, of London, England, in 1855. They had one daughter named Emily. Mrs. Lyons died in 1865, aged 32 years. Capt. R. D. Lyons married for a second wife Miss Janet Thomson, of Liverpool, in 1870. They had two children named Rufus and Henry. Capt. Lyons died at Iquique in the year 1873. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Lyons removed with her family to Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, where she died in September, 1885. Her son Rufus died in childhood.

Salomon Eisner was one of the Jewish refugee who embarked on the Dora in 1939 and reaches the shores of Palestine despite the British Navy embargo. See: "The Dora", by Daniel Abraham.

Salvat Ernest Cazenave a accompli son service militaire au 5e régiment du Génie à Versailles en 1902.

Samantha is studying Business Administration/Accounting at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine (2013).

Samantha studied Marketing at Rollings College.

Same person as “Jennie A. Coes”?

Samuel and Phebe were married by Rev. Joseph Churchill Skinner

Samuel and Ruth resided some years in Greenpoint, NY then moved to Glastonbury, CT where he bought a farm and lived a few years.

Sans doute une candidate au record du nombre de prénoms !

Sans enfants.

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  

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 o 

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 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: 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.