Prescott Orde SKINNER
1867 - 1951 (83 years)-
Name Prescott Orde SKINNER Birth 28 Apr 1867 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
Gender Male Census 1870 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [1] Census 1880 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [2] Census 1900 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [3] Census 1910 Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire [4] Census 1920 Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire [5] Census 1930 Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire [6] Census 1940 Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire [7] Death 16 Feb 1951 Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire [8, 9] Burial Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire [10] 
Siblings4 brothers and 1 sister Person ID I6535 bmds Last Modified 1 Dec 2015
Father Dr. John SKINNER, b. 16 Feb 1824, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia d. 27 Dec 1909, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 85 years) Mother Jane Reid TERWILLIGER, b. 26 Feb 1835, New Scotland, Albany, New York d. 8 Apr 1922, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 87 years) Family ID F30 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alice Van Leer CARRICK, b. 1 Aug 1875, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee d. 26 Nov 1961, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire (Age 86 years) Marriage 10 Jul 1901 Age at Marriage Prescott : 34 years old | Alice : 25 years old. Children 1 son and 2 daughters + 1 
. Margaret Van Leer SKINNER, b. 12 Aug 1902, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire d. 16 Oct 1982, Wellesley, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)+ 2 . John Carrick SKINNER, b. 21 Oct 1905, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire d. 25 Nov 1957, New York (Age 52 years)+ 3 . Alicia Prescott SKINNER, b. 10 Dec 1909, New Hampshire d. Dec 1981, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire (Age 72 years)Family ID F2448 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth - 28 Apr 1867 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Census - 1870 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Census - 1880 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Census - 1900 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
Census - 1910 - Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire Census - 1920 - Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire Census - 1930 - Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire Census - 1940 - Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire 
Death - 16 Feb 1951 - Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
Burial - - Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire Pin Legend 
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Notes - Letter from Prescott Orde Skinner to Mitia Olga Skinner:
[Mitia Olga is Prescott’s niece. First two pages of this letter are lost. Date is unknown]
“[…] her aunt Alice (my wife) is most attractive. They are all coming up to Hanover to pass the Christmas. Alicias’s family with her husband’s (John Carleton) family, and John Skinner and Helen with us.
“Now as to the Skinners, I will tell you what I know. The family in the late 17th or early 18th century, sailed from Chichester, England, settling in Colchester, Connecticut. Alice got a lot of the early history of our family from my mother who got it in turn from my father. Alice will write this early period to you. The Skinners that I descend from were all professional men, mostly ministers.
“My grandfather Joseph Churchill Skinner was a Baptist minister in Nova Scotia and then in New Brunswick. I have his portrait taken in the 1840s or 1850s; an impressive looking man, dignified in his white shirt, and the dress ot his time.
“At the beginning of the Revolution War, my ancestors Skinners were Tories (my father was not proud of this). They, with a few other of the same attachment to England, got into a large open boat and amidst all the perils of the sea, sailed north along the New England coast to Nova Scotia. I think they settled in what is known as the Evangeline country – but Alice will tell you about this.
“My grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Churchill was called to New Brunswick and lived and preached for many years in a town on the Washademoak Lake, about fifty miles from the City of St. John up the St. John river.
“My father was the second of seven children, born in Nova Scotia about two months before the family left for New Brunswick (1825). My father worked hard under difficulties, and finally entered Fredericton Academy (in New Brunswick) thence to Harvard University. He studied in the Harvard Medical School under such men as Professor Stones and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. My father used to tell us a great many anecdotes about Dr. Holmes in the classroom. My father was in the 1850s or 1860s interim in Mass. General Hospital.
“For a number of years, my father practiced in St. John, New Brunswick. He made some money there, then went to Boston in Tremont Street, near the Common where I was born, then to the South End where he bought a house and made his office there. Later he sold the house, and our family moved to Roxbury a sort of suburb of Boston.
“The story of my father’s marriage, Alice will tell you about. My mother, the best of women, insisted on us four boys having the finest opportunities for education. Macy and I in Harvard University, Vernon in Law School, and your father in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he stood well as a student.
“Later I studied at the University of Paris – Harvard graduate School, and taught for 38 years at Dartmouth College where I am now a professor emeritus on a pension.
“I don’t know but I think that the Daughters of the America Revolution insist on the ancestors being a native patriot. My own sympathies are all with the American cause, and in spite of my father’s ancestrial party membership, my father from boyhood always was in sympathy with the American cause.
“But ask me some more and I will try to answer. Your Aunt Alice and I congratulate you on your engagement most heavily. As you write it, it seems a perfect match. By the way your aunt Alice is very fond of you.
Love – Uncle Orde.”
From the “Harvard College, Class of 1896 Fiftieth Anniversary Report”:.jpg)
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Sources - [S22] 1870 US Census, 16 Jun 1870, Boston, 9th ward - Family #710.
Census place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Skinner Prescott O. | Son | age: 3 | birthplace: Mass. | occup.: at home - [S18] 1880 US Census, 12 Jun 1880, Page 36 - Family #380.
Census place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Skinner Prescott | Son | age: 13 | birthplace: MA | father’s bp: NS | mother’s bp: NY | occup.: at School - [S12] 1900 US Census, Boston, 22th ward - family #301.
Census place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Skinner Prescott O | Son | birth: Sept 1867 | age: 32 | birthplace: Mass. | father’s bp: Canada Eng. | mother’s bp: NY | occupation : Professor College - [S13] 1910 US Census, 2 May 1910, Hanover - Family #83.
Census place: Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
Skinner Prescott O. | Head | age: 42 | birthplace: MA | father’s bp: Can-English | mother’s bp: New York | occupation: Professor College - [S6] 1920 US Census, Hanover - Family #329.
Census place: Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
Skinner Prescott O | Head | age: 51 | birthplace: MA | father’s bp: Canada | mother’s bp: New York | occupation: Teacher College - [S11] 1930 US Census, 25 May 1930, Hanover - Family #519.
Census place: Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
Skinner Prescott O. | Head | home: rented ($50) | age: 62 | years married: 24 | occupation: Professor Dart. College - [S7] 1940 US Census.
Skinner, Prescott O. | age: 72 | bp: Mass. | occup: Professor (College) - [S4] Notice nécrologique.
Prof. Skinner of Dartmouth Dies in Bedford at 83
Hanover, Feb 16 – Prescott Orde Skinner, emeritus professor of Romance Languages at Dartmouth college, died last night at the home of a daughter, Mrs John P. Carleton, Bedford. He was 83.
An authority on the French Renaissance, Professor Skinner taught at Dartmouth for 37 years before his retirement in 937. He is credited with building up the large French collection which the Library of Congress now possesses.
Skinner was graduated from Harvard College in 1896 and took his Master’s degreee there the following year. After teaching at Harvard and Boston University, he joined Dartmouth faculty in 1900 as an instructor and was promoted to professor in 1912.
Dartmouth conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters upon him in 1937. Born in Boston, Professor Skinner was married in 1901 to Alice Van Leer Carrick, who writes under that name and is an authority on antiques.
He leaves his widow, two daughters, Mrs Carleton and Mrs Joseph S. Hancourt of Danvers, Mass; a son, John C. Skinner of New York, and three brothers, Vernon V., of Holllywood, Calif, Fenwick F., of Mount Vernon, NY, and Macy M. Skinner of Chicago, also five grandchildren.
A private funeral service will be held tomorrow at Grace Episcopal church, Manchester, with burial in Bedford.
— The Nashua Telegraph, 16 Feb 1951 - [S4] Notice nécrologique.
Prof Skinner of Dartmouth Dies, Aged 83
BEDFORD, N.H. Feb. 16 – Prescott O. Skinner, 83, professor emeritus of romance languages at Dartmouth College, died here early today, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Carleton.
Prof. Skinner, an authority on the French Renaissance, taught at Dartmouth 37 years, and retired in 1938. He was credited with building up the large French section of the Library of Congress.
Prof. Skinner was a graduate of Boston Latin School and Harvard College. He studied also at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Before going to Dartmouth, he taught at Harvard and Boston University. Dartmouth granted him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1939.
He leaves his wife, the former Alice VanLeer Carrick; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret S. Hancourt of Danvers, Mass., and Mrs. Alicia S. Carleton of Bedford and a son John C. Skinner of New York city.
Funeral services will be held at the Grace Episcopal Church chapel tomorrow.
— The Boston Herald, Saturday, February 17, 1951 - [S5] Find A Grave, → Memorial ID 155372842.
- [S22] 1870 US Census, 16 Jun 1870, Boston, 9th ward - Family #710.