Nathan SKINNER

Father: Jacob SKINNER
Mother: Rhoda MC_DOWELL

Family 1: Harriet BAKER
  1. Helena SKINNER
  2. Helen SKINNER
Family 2: Margaret A BLESSING
  1. Blanche SKINNER 
                                            _Joseph SKINNER _
                    _Abner C SKINNER ______|
                   |                       |_Martha KINNE ___
 _Jacob SKINNER ___|
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|                  |_Keziah DUSTIN\GUSTIN _|
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|--Nathan SKINNER 
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|_Rhoda MC_DOWELL _|
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Notes

! SKU 16(3)65 Beers. (1900.) Commemorative Biographical Record Of Northeast Pennsylvania Including The Counties Of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike, And Monroe. Nathan, our subject is the youngest in the family. During his boyhood and youth Nathan Skinner helped in the work of the home farm during the summer season and attended school through the winter months. In 1847 he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Baker, a daughter of William Baker, a representative of one of the old families in Great Bend township, Susquehanna county. They located on a tract of wild land in Oakland township, which Mr. Skinner converted into a good farm, erecting thereon good and substantial buildings. Here the wife died in Dec 1860, and two daughters, Helena and Helen, born to them, died in childhood. Mrs. Skinner was a well educated woman and prior to her marriage successfully _____ in teaching in the district schools for a number of years. For his second wife our subject married Margaret A. Blessing, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Blessing, prominent citizens of Great he served as street commissioner for a number of years, and also looked after his farming interests. In 1896 he located upon his present farm in Oakland townhsip, where his wife died in March 1898, leaving one daughter, Blanche, a lady of culture and refinement, who is a great comfort to her father in his declining years. She received a good education in the graded schools of Susquehanna and Oakland, and was for several years one of the successful teachers of Susquehanna county. In 1886 she married Jasper Hawes, who was born in Forest Lake, Susquehanna county, in 1855. He attended school in Montrose, and graudated from the Kingston Academy, after which he studied law under M. J. Larrabee, of Susquehanna, and was admitted to the Bar at Montrose. He then engaged in practice in Susquehanna until failing health caused his retirement. For a time he served as foreman in the felting factory at Newburg, Orange Co., NY, and in early life taught for some years in the district schools. He died in January, 1899, leaving his young wife with three children- Rex Bentley (who is now attending the Oakland schools); Margaret Louise; and Helena Blanche.

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