Robert Black SKINNER

1886 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Robert Black SKINNER
  Birth	28 Mar 1886  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Siblings	1 brother
  1. William Josiah SKINNER,   b. Abt 1880, Nova Scotia d. Yes, date unknown   2. Robert Black SKINNER,   b. 28 Mar 1886   d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I8324	bmds
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2016

  
  

  Father	Rev. Isaac R. SKINNER,   b. 27 May 1846, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia d. 16 Oct 1896, Weston, Kings, Nova Scotia (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Isabell BLACK,   b. Abt 1848, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia d. 20 Mar 1892, Wittenburg, Colchester, Nova Scotia (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F2726	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He lived and worked for many years in Boston, and whose wife Ethel, was an accountant; and Robert Black Skinner, who founded a highly successful construction business in Boston (the First Church of Christian Scientist mother church in Boston and the Central Park Children’s Zoo in New York being prime examples), kept a Park Avenue Penthouse in New York, and a hobby farm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He married twice and had two children by his first wife, and Raymond McCully Skinner. Raymond was born in River Hebert, N.S. in 1883. He worked for the Boston street railway and took night courses, eventually obtaining a degree in electrical engineering. In 1910 he went to Vancouver, B.C. where he supervised the construction of major hydro-electric power installations for B.C.Electric Co. A member of the Association of Professional Engineers of B.C., he died in the early 1950’s….”

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] 1901 Canadian Census, (website).