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….”