They resided in Digby, N.S., where he worked as an accountant in the bank. He died in 1918, a victim of the flu epidemic. 

Thomas Catlin was a Second Lieutenant in the Litchfield Co. commanded by Capitan Abraham Bradley, which formed a part of six battalions (Second Batallion, Wadsworth’s Brigade, Fifth Company), ordered by The General Assembly in June 1776, to be raised to march to New York to join the Continental Army. On September 4th, following, he was taken prisoner by the British Troups on New York Island, and confined eleven days in close jail.
 Finally on December 25th, 1776, he with two-hundred and twenty-five others was put on board the Glasgow at New York, to be carried to Connecticut for exchange.
 In 1777, Thomas Catlin was voted one of a committee to purchase and provide clothing to the Continental Army, from Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1780 Thomas Catlin of Litchfield was appointed one of the inspectors of rations for the army. (Source: Connecticut in the Revolution, pg. 395)
 Thomas was the son of Thomas Catlin and Abigail Bissell. He married Avis Buell on December 25, 1763 in Litchfield, CT. They had six children, Thomas 3rd, Truman, Abel (Dr.), Levi, Avis, and Ann Catlin. 

Thomas Gordon Jackson is a veteran of World War I
Regimental number: 1668
Religion: Congregational
Occupation: Manager, bookseller
Address: 2 Edenthorpe Terrace, Kooyong Road, Caulfield, Victoria
Marital status: Married
Age at embarkation: 30
Next of kin: Wife, Mrs Margaret Josephine Jackson, ’Beltana’, Poath Road, Oakleigh, Victoria
Enlistment date: 23 March 1916
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll: 2 September 1915
Rank on enlistment: Private
Unit name: 39th Battalion, 1st Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number: 23/56/2
Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 27 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll: Sergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll: 39th Battalion
Fate: Returned to Australia: 22 July 1917 

Twin brother of Roberta Lois (Piersdorf) Zabel (b. 31 Mar 1929, d. 22 Feb 2006). Son of Lloyd and Emma (Mann) Piersdorf. 

Twitter : https://twitter.com/marypadgelek
 

Two Women, Injured In Accident, Recover Mrs. Virginia Ker, daughter of Lillian Trainor Riggs of Los Angeles. Calf., and niece of Mrs. M. H. Glassford, 621 West Green street, has recovered from injuries received last week in a car accident on route 36 near Buffalo. Mrs. Ker left Decatur yesterday for Brooklyn, N. Y., and will leave soon to join her husband in Wiesbaden, Germany. She was accompanied to New York by Mrs. Cecelia Ayer of Los Angeles who was also injured in the accident. – Source : The Decature Daily Review, Illinois. Wed., August 27, 1947. 

Un autre Antoine Poignet, fils de Pierre Poignet et Jeanne Lachappelle est né à Collonges le 11 février 1806 (cf. Source : Archives de Corrèze. Collonges-la-Rouge, naissances 1797-1822, vue 143.), sa date de naissance coïncide avec l’âge mentionné sur son acte de décès. 

US 1880 Census Place: Township 109, Brookings, Dakota Territory. 

Valory Messier completed her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1998 and the Master of Arts in Sociology in 2000 at Sacramento State University. She started working with the Institute in 1998 as a graduate assistant. She became a full-time researcher with the Institute in 2001. She has worked on numerous applied research projects conducting research using self-administered, interviewer-administered, phone, mail, and CATI interview formats. She has managed the CEDA database since 2001.
 

Vernon studied in Harvard Law School, and graduated in 1897. He was at the head of Mass. State Penitentiary System. Then he left Massachusetts and settled in California (abt. 1914) where he married Jenny.

Source: The Municipal Register, City of Boston, 1908. p. 74
Vernon V. Skinner, Penal Institutions Commissioner. Term ends in 1910. Salary, $5000.

Source: The New York Times, December 25, 1909
Boston penal officials out. – Mayor Removes Commissioner Skinner and Deputy Carruth.
 BOSTON, Dec. 24. – Mayor George A. Hibbard’s Christmas surprise for Penal Commissioner Vernon V. Skinner to-day was his removal from office and the appointment in his place of Stree Commissioner Gui C. Emerson. Mayor Hibbard directed Emerson to dismiss Deputy Commissioner Herbert S. Carruth as well.
 Mayor Hibbard bases his action on the allegation that Skinner and Carruth have been guilty of “suppression and misrepresentation” of the conditions existing at Deer Island, where the Suffolk County Hous of Correction is maintained.
 Skinner on Wednesday testified before the Finance Commission that the penal institution’s steamer Monitor had been loaned for private excursions at the request of the Mayor or his secretary, James C. White; that officers at the Deer Island institution had been kept in office after having been detected supplying prisoners with morphine, and that intoxication among the officers at the institution was not extremely rare.

Source: History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, vol. I, 1908.
Skinner, Vernon Villiers: born Boston, Nov. 22, 1868, son of Dr. John and Jeanie (Reid) Skinner; admitted Suffolk bar 1897, U.S. Circuit and Circuit Court of Appeals 1899; in partnership with George J. Weller since 1901 under firm name of Weller & Skinner; offices, 16 Court Sq. Boston, residence, 2848 Washington St., Boston; has served as treasurer Lincoln Club of Bonston (Inc.), vice-president Rep. City Committee and Penal Institutions Commissioner of Boston; member of Marshall Club, and ranks high as an officer in the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities.

Source: Harvard alumni directory, 1914
Skinner, Vernon Villiers [l 94-97, LL.B. Law] 662 S. Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Source: Harvard alumni directory, 1919
Skinner, Vernon Villiers [l 94-97, LL.B. Merc.] 5543 Sierra Vista Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 

Veteran of the Spanish American War, 3rd Texas Volunteer Infantry, Co. F, 

Vincent and Mildred had 2 boys and 3 girls. 

Viola Beatrice Kneeland ’30 LL.M.
 Clearly a woman ahead of her time, Viola Beatrice Kneeland established her own law firm in Boston with a partner in 1933 and continued to practice until she was nearly 70. She was among the first women admitted to Columbia Law School and was the first to receive an LL.M. degree. Born in Boston, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1920 and went on to complete an M.A. in literature at Columbia in 1923. After working briefly as a Greek tutor, she enrolled at Boston University Law School, where she earned her LL.B. cum laude in 1927. She entered Columbia Law School in 1929, finishing her LL.M. degree in just a year.
 Ms. Kneeland worked for Blodgett, Jones, Burnham & Bingham in Boston before establishing her own firm, Kneeland & Splane. In her more than 30 years of practice on Federal Street, she specialized in admiralty and marine insurance law, coffering a territory that spanned from Eastport, Me., to Brownsville, Tex. It was quite an accomplishment, considering admiralty law was largely the bailiwick of male practitioners. Although she lived most of her adult life on Boston’s Beacon Street, Ms. Kneeland was a cosmopolitan woman who traveled the world. In 1952, she wrote to the Wellesley alumnae magazine: "Our office has grown by leaps and bounds. However, in spite of the press of business or perhaps because of it, I find time about every six months to go abroad…. The last trip was a cruise on the Caronia around South America – before that it was the Caronia to the North Cape and Norway and Sweden - and before that a flying trip to Portugal, Spain, the Riviera, and Paris." 

Violet was a dance instructor. 

Virginia has been KGMG Program Director from 1964 to 1965. (source: This Day in Portland Radio History) 

Voir fiche Wikipedia. 

Voir Geneanet - Henri Simon LUCET 

VOL DE FARINE. — Un vol très important de farine aurait été commis à la gare des marchandises à Brive. Il concerne cinq balles de farine, destinées à M. Duché, boulanger, avenue de la gare, à Brive, provenant du moulin de Gervais (Dordogne), représenté à Brive par M. Gauthier, boulevard de la Sous-préfecture. Lorsque le camionneur voulut prendre livraison de la marchandise, il ne trouva que 11 balles sur les 16 expédiées. Le vol est évalué à 150 fr. Plainte a été déposée. (Source : Le Courrier du Centre, 24 novembre 1905). 

WALDO W. SKINNER
Waldo W. Skinner, practising at the Montreal bar as a member of the firm of Simth, Markey, Skinner, Pugsley & Hyde, was born at St. John, New Brunswick, a son of the late Hon. C. M. Skinner, K. C. His youthful days were largely devoted to the acquirement of an education in the schools of his native city and at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and having determined upon the practice of law as his life work, he entered McGill University in preparation for the bar, and was graduated B. C. L. in 1901. In 1913 Mr. Skinner was created a king’s counsel. The year following his graduation he entered upon the active work of his profession and his course has been marked by continuous progress. He is now associated with one of the leading law firms of the City, Smith, Markey, Skinner, Pugsley & Hyde, and is actively interested in much importante litigation, in connection with which he is retained as counsel for the defense or prosecution. From the outset of his carreer he has recognized the fact that careful preparation is one of the indispensable elements of success, so that thorough work precedes his presentation of his cause in the courtroom. His reasoning is clear and cogent and his arguments strong and forceful.
In June, 1907, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Skinner and Miss Loulou Forget, the eldest daughter of the late Hon. L. J. Forget, senator. Mr. Skinner in his social relations is well known, being a member of the Mount Royal, St. James and Montreal Clubs, while his interest in sports is further indicated in his membership in the Montreal Racquet and Royal Montreal Golf Clubs. Attractive social qualities render him popular in those organisations, in which he has gained many friends. 

Wallace is the author of Robert Fulton: Pioneer of Undersea Warfare, Mar 1981. 

Walter Blanchard was a railroad engineer. He died in a railroad accident near Millington, Tennessee. 

Walter served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II in Company C 103 Infantry from March of 1941 to May of 1945. Mr. Doughty earned the rank of Staff Sergeant and was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon, the American Defense Service Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Campaign Ribbon with four Service Stars, a Purple Heart for wounds received in action in the Philippine Islands, and two Bronze Stars, one of which was presented on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004. 

Waterville — Mrs. J. Edgar Batton, from Kentville, is spending a few days with her sisters, the Misses Skinner. (The Register, July 21st, 1897) 

We are sorry to report that Mrs. Mildred Million Crews passed away last week. They had her funeral Monday, Feb. 18th. Mildred was the wife of the late Gene Million. She has a son, Dave, who lives in the Ellsinore area. We send our sympathy to Dave and family, and to his sisters and brother. (Source: The Current Local (Van Buren, Missouri), Thursday, February 28, 1985). 

Wedding Bells Bowlby - Wotton
A very pretty home wedding took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Wotton, Wilmot on Wednesday morning, Dec. 27th, when their youngest daughter, Jennie Raymond, became the bride of Neil Ross Bowlby also of Wilmot. The bride was attended by Miss Evelyn Bowlby, sister of the groom, while the groom was supported by Louis E. Wotton, brother of the bride. Little Jean Bowlby acted as ring bearer. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. D. Skinner, of Yarmouth, uncle of the bride, the double ring ceremony being used. The bride was tastefully attired in white silk and bridal veil and carried a large bouquet of ferns and bridal roses. The bridesmaid was dressed in blue silk and carried a bouquet of pink carnations. The grooms present to the bride was a gold watch and chain, to the bridesmaid a ring and the ring bearer a locket and chain. Among the number of handsome presents was a large rocker from the Wilmot Sunday School and some valuable dishes from the Wilmot Club and a nice assortment of silverware, china etc. from a large number of invited guests present. After a dainty wedding breakfast the happy couple were driven to Middleton where they took the D.A.R. express for Boston where they will visit relatives. On their return they will reside at Wilmot.

Their marriage certificate is numbered 2412. The clergyman was Rev. J.D. Skinner, her uncle an United Baptist minister. The witnesses were Charles L. Wood of Annapolis, N.S. and John G. Marsters, Melvern 

Wedding performed by rev. Thos Trotter 

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., June 15--Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Frederic L. Felton of Wellesley Hills, and Newagen, Me., of the engagement of their daughter, Joan Wells, to Gorham Damont Cross Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Cross of Cambridge and Marion, formerly of this community. (Source: The New York Times, June 16, 1951) 

WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 10 — Mr. and Mrs. William Gris­wold Phelps have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Judith Laing Phelps, to John West Felton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Luther Fol­ton of Cumberland Foreside, Me., formerly of Wellesley.   Miss Phelps, a graduate of Concord Academy, is a senior at Smith College. She was pre­sented at the Concord Country Ball in 1961. She is a grand­daughter of Mrs. George Hub­bard Blakeslee of Worcester and of the late Dr. Blakeslee. Mr. Felton is an alumnus of the Noble and Greenough School and Trinity College. He is with the G. Arnold Haynes Construction Company here. (Source: The New York Times, October 11, 1964. 

Wheaton Weddings:
Virginia E. Gibb ’51 and John F. Keith were married June 11 in Beverly Farms, Mass. 

William and Janet Elizabeth had 20 children (14 boys, 6 girls). Janet died in childbirth.
 

William G. Harvison has been Century Savings Bank in Des Moines, Ia. 

WILLIAM H. BURGE LEAVES PROPERTY TO BROTHER
The late William H. Burge in his will which has been filed for probate bequeathed all of his property, both real and personal, to his brother, James Burge. The testator appointed his brother to serve as executor. Mr. Burge made his will Dec. 1, 1947, witnessed by Marjorie Kitner, Sue Farthing, and M. Brooks. (Source: The Jacksonville Daily Journal, Sept. 17, 1952).


In the Matter of the Petition for I the Probate of the Last Will of William H. Burge, Deceased.
TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN, GREETINGS. You are hereby notified that on the 29th day of September, A. D. 1952, an instrument in writing purporting to be the last will of William H. Burge, deceased, was filed in the County Court of Morgan, Illinois: also was filed a petition, asking that the said instrument in writing be admitted to probate as and for the Last Will of William H. Burge, deceased. Said petition states that the following persons are all known heirs at law, legatees and devisees of the said deceased, to-wit: James Burge, a brother of the decedent: the following children of Ella Burge Skinner, the predeceased sister of William H. Burge, deceased, Bradford Skinner, nephew of this decedent. Armour Skinner, nephew of this decedent, and Gladys Skinner, niece of this decedent. That the other heirs at law, if any, of said deceased, are unknown to said petitioner. You are further notified that the hearing of the proof of the said last Will has been set by said Court for the 29th day of November, A. D. 1952, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon in the County Court at the Court House in Jacksonville, Illinois, when and where you may appear and show cause, if any you have, why said instrument in writing should not be admitted to probate as the last Will of said William H. Burge, deceased. Geo. T. Douglas Clerk of the County Court Dated at Jacksonville, Illinois, this, the 29th day of October, A. D. 1952. M. Brooks Byus, Attorney. (Source: The Jacksonville Daily Journal, Oct. 30, 1952). 

Willis Malone is a retired from the U.S. Army as a CW03 with 21 years of service after which he then owned and operated Malone One Hour Cleaners for 20 years in Carrollton, GA. 

Witnesses to marriage of Seraphina and Philip were A. C. Belyea and Zipporah A. Hanselpacker.

From the Saint John Christian Visitor, November 27, 1878 : m. Cambridge (Queens Co.) 13th inst., by Rev. A.B. MacDonald, Philip HANSELPACKER / Seraphina S. COES, both of Cambridge 

Witnesses to the marriage were Frances McCutcheon and Elizabeth McCutcheon. 

Word has been received here of the death of Charles Sumner McDUFFEE, 72, former Portland resident, at his home in Seattle last week. Mr. McDuffee was well known as an old time Alaskan sourdough who startled the north with his experiments with goats for freighting in the arctic in lieu of sled dogs.
 He crossed the continent on the first train running from Boston to San Francisco and was at one time publisher of the Western Trail magazine in Seattle. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Adelia LORD MCDUFFEE and several sons and daughters. 

Working at Mac Truck Service. Oregon City, OR. 

Yvonne Elizabeth (Goodison) Robertson was the daughter of John R. Goodison (1866-1926), Speaker of the House, who was the grandson of John Rorke (1807-1896). John R. Goodison’s father was married to Elizabeth Ann Rorke, John Rorke’s daughter. Yvonne Elizabeth married Daniel Alexander Robertson son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph N.M. Robertson of Saint John, New Brunswick, in St. John’s at her sister, Marjorie (Goodison) Girvan’s home, after 1926. 

[...] Henry Wheat probably is Henry A. Wheat (1856-1908), son of William Henry Wheat and Huldah M. Chase and husband of Etta M. Ward (1856-1906). Etta is daughter of Hope Ward and Jane Terwilliger. Henry and Etta had four children: John W., Fred A., Floyd A., and Ruth M. Wheat. Henry and Etta had moved to Moravia by 1900 but may have retained a property interest in Scipio. (Source: Roger A. Post, Scipio Center, NY History, 5 March 2010)

See also: Wheat Genealgy: a history of the Wheat family in America 

[Possible Children:
Charlotte Ooten
Charlotte Taylor Ooten, 66, of Hixson died Wednesday, April 4, 2001, in a local hospital.
She was a member of Hixson First Baptist Church and was retired from American National/SunTrust Bank, with approximately 27 years of service.
She was preceded in death by her father, Guy Blevins Taylor.
She is survived by husband, James D. Ooten; sons, James Donald "Don" Ooten Jr. of Valdosta, Ga., and Mark J. Ooten of Hixson; six grandchildren; mother, Anna Belle Coulter of Spring City, Tenn.; brother, Jack Taylor of Hixson; sister, Margaret Lee Strader of Kingston, Tenn.; several nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 6, 2001, North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home with Rev. Terry Shannon officiating.
The interment will follow the service in Hamilton Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family request that memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society, 850 Fortwood St., Chattanooga, TN 37403.
The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and from 6-8 p.m. today, April 5, 2001, and from 1-2:30 p.m. Friday, April 6, 2001, North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, 5401 Highway 153.
] 

   Mortka (Mordechai) Mendel Bialystock was born on 2 May 1872 in Wyszkow (Poland), the son of Moshe Leib Bialystock and his wife Freida Nekhama Bialystock. After attending the Volks- und Mittelschule he completed a textile school and became a textile buyer. As a merchant in the textile wholesale trade, he set up his own business in his home town.
 In 1890 he married Malka Kahan, who was born in Chorzele (Poland) on 1st June 1867. From the marriage, seven children were born: Dora Feigel (born 1891), Heinrich Chaim (born 1891), Chaja Esther (born 1894), Jankiel (born 1897), Isaak (born 1898), Bertha (b. 1903) and Isidor (born 1907).
 In 1911 the family Bialystock moved to Germany, and Mortka Mendel Bialystock founded a textile business in Kiel. On 4 August 1914 the family moved to Bremen. Mortka Mendel Bialystock opened a menswear shop at Brautstraße 3/4. Soon he moved this business into the house Faulenstraße 48, which – like other houses – was his property. This was where the family lived.
 On 1 December 1932, the family moved to the Netherlands (with the exception of Heinrich Chaim, who stayed with his family in Bremen), and settled in The Hague. Mortka Mendel Bialystock returned (1936) to the bar mitzva of his grandson Martin von den Haag to Bremen. From 30 Aug. until 3 Sept. 1936 he was reported at the Bahnhofsplatz 16 in Bremen’s only pension, which still accommodated Jewish guests.
 Even before the German attack on the Netherlands, which began on 10 May 1940, Mortka Mendel and Malka Bialystock arrived in Nice on March 13, 1940, where they were sure to believe. After the surrender of France, Nice fell under the rule of the Vichy government, but was occupied by Italian troops since the end of 1942, which led to a strong influx of Jewish refugees into the region around Nice. The Italian civil and military authorities initially opposed the arrest of Jews, but ultimately failed to assert themselves against the Vichy government and the Gestapo. Mortka Mendel Bialystock was arrested in 1943 for the treason of a French family and was presumably deported to an extermination camp where he was murdered.
 At the end of April 1945, Mortka Mendels and Malka’s grandson Martin Bialystock, who had joined the British troops in Palestine in 1940 – at the age of 17 – and had fought in North Africa and Italy, received a letter from his aunt Chaja Esther Pajgin from Surinam (Dutch Guiana). She told him the desperate situation of his grandmother in Nice. He then went with a jeep from Bologna to Nice, and sought out the synagogue there to find out where the grandmother lived. The denouncer, who had betrayed his grandfather, handed over to the military police.
 Malka Bialystock returned to the Netherlands. She died on 7 July 1955 in The Hague.
  

    According to a copy of the death certificate issued by the State of Nebraska, Henry L. Smith was born in Illinois on 18 Apr 1852 to Robert T. Smith, and Martha Burroughs Smith, both of New Jersey. Henry was the eldest of three known children. The informant for Henry’s death certificate was L. D. Erion, the son-in-law of Henry L. Smith. According to Henrietta Christine Jann Smith’s memoir, she married Henry L. Smith in Des Moines, IA on 1 Jul 1877. Together, Henry and Henrietta had four children, the oldest one being my great grandmother. In the 1880 US Census Henry’s occupation is shown as “bartender” in Des Moines, IA. By the 1885 Iowa State Census Henry has a restaurant. Between 1885 and 1889, the Smith family moves from Des Moines, IA to South Omaha, Nebraska.
 According to Omaha, Nebraska 1889-1890 city directories, Henry L. Smith is listed as working as a barkeeper at the T-Rock, North 27 & L, South Omaha, Nebraska. By 1899 Henry is working as a bartender at Berlin & Healey according to a March 3, 1899 article found in the Omaha World Herald. By 1904 newspaper reports reveal that Henry L. Smith is seriously ill. He recovered and for the next nine years the family moved from Nebraska to Iowa and finally to Bellevue, Sarpy, Nebraska, where on 7 Oct 1918 at 6 a.m., Henry L. Smith passed away at the age of 66 years, 5 months, and 19 days. The cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis from which he had suffered for at least six years. Henry was buried on 9 Oct 1918 under the direction of G. H. Brewer, undertaker. (Source: Deborah Astley) 

— Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets. 26 juillet 1951. Page 8098
« Par arrêté du 23 juillet 1951, Mme Glenat, née Bargoni, institutrice de 2e classe du département de la Haute-Savoie, est mise pour une durée de cinq ans, à compter du 3 décembre 1949, à la disposition du ministre des affaires étrangères, pour exercer ses fonctions en Tunisie. »
 

“Each unique creation designed by Steven G. Straight combines old world furniture making techniques with fine art detailing. The woods for each piece are carefully selected, the carving is done by hand, the joints are achieved without using metal fasteners, and the visual themes always reflect the spirit of the southwest. My production capacity is limited because I care more about quality than quantity. My customers are people who share his passions, people who love wood, appreciate hand crafted quality, and like to surround themselves with beautiful, one of a kind furnishings. I have also added Glass etching and carving. What I like best, says Steve, is working directly with customers to design, build and decorate something just for them, something that will give them years of pleasure and eventually become a family heirloom.” (Source: Str8line Wood, Glass & Stone Art, Durango, CO).
 

“It was his application of aviation expertise, despite adversity, that was in great measure responsible for making Air Canada’s safety record the envy of world airlines.”
 James Rood began his aviation career with the RCAF in 1914 and later earned his wings as Pilot Officer in the RCAF Reserve. He later entered the commercial aviation field as a flying instructor and barnstormer in Nova Scotia, where he also earned his engineer’s license. In 1937, he joined Trans-Canada Air Lines where he pioneered routes between the Rocky Mountains, Lethbridge, Alberta and Vancouver, B.C.. Later in his career, Rood rejoined the RCAF at the outbreak of WWII and was asked to develop the Canadian Government Trans-Atlantic Air Service, designed to speed high-ranking government officials and secret cargo between Canada and the United Kingdom. He was named chief pilot of this service until the war’s end when the service was taken over by TCA. (Source: Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame) 

“Leonard OLIVE s/o Herbert J. OLIVE, is going to the new State of Washington and will take up ranching.” (Source: Saint John Globe, May 24, 1892) 

“My great great grandfather, the music Professor Caleb Rand Bill came from Nova Scotia to New England with his wife. They had their nine children in succession from New Brunswick, Maine, Boston and then Salem as he moved from place to place teaching music. According to the Bill Family Genealogy, he had three brothers. One died while studying away at Acadia College, and the other two went on a mission to New Zealand.” (Source: Heather Wilkinson Rojo – March 18, 2010). 

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Some time ago some bricks fell off the top of one of the Isham House chimneys, upon the roof of the STANDARD office, and caused a leak. We sent up to see Pelow Graham, and get him to repair it. We have often spoken of C. Graham as the boss hand to put on metallic roofs. Early in the year 1871 he put the roof on our composing room. The roof is nearly flat, yet it has never leaked until it received this injury. Pelow, his son, can discover and repair injuries in a metallic roof with more certainly than any man we have ever employed.” (Source: The Jackson Standard, Jackson, Ohio, Thursday, June 28, 1883)