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!.....E94.0626.09 SKU 11(4):69 Skinner, Alice
!.....E95.0501.10-16 SKU 12(2):46 Skinner, Alice Skinner Family by Timothy Lee Skinner: Abrahamıs father, Jacob Skinner, moved to Susquehanna County in 1804 with his twin brother Israel, who was a medical doctor. Commemorative Biographical Record gives 1778 as the birthyear of Jacob and Israel, and 1781 as the birthyear of Rhoda (McDowell) Skinner, Jacobıs wife. In The Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America, Vol. VI, edited by Frederick Adams Virkus, p. 585, reference is made to an Israel Skinner, M.D., who was born in 1776, not 1778 as Commemorative Biographical Record said. Perhaps the difference in dates is a mistype or copy error. Virkusı Compendium refers to Israel Skinner as the author of a history of the American Revolution in verse. The National Union Catalog provides an imprint o the bibliographical entry from this book. It was printed by Collier and Canoll in Binghamton, New York in 1829. The title of the work by Israel Skinner, M.D., was A History of the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, in Verse. Binghamton, New York is the closest larger city to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, closer even than Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Compendium traces Israel Skinnerıs ancestry back to Thomas Skinner of Malden, Massachusetts, an emigrant from England in the early 1600s. Obviously some better evidence is still needed in order to probe that the Israel Skinner, M.D. mentioned in the Compendium and the Commemorative Biographical Record is the same person.
!.....Beers. (1900.) Commemorative Biographical Record Of Northeast Pennsylvania Including The Counties Of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike, And Monroe. b 1778 Jacob Skinner with his twin brother, Dr. Israel Skinner, came to Susquehanna county, in 1804, and they located on adjoining farms on the Susquehanna river, near Hickory Grove, in what is now Oakland township, but then formed a part of Harmony township. The Doctor engaged in the practice of medicine, and here reared a large family, all of whom are now deceased. In the midst of the wilderness Jacob Skinner cleared and improved a good farm, and in the log cabin he erected thereon, he spent his last years. In his family were thirteen children who reached years of maturity.
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!.....E97.0103.06 SKU 18(3)83 Skinner, David A Family records (Family Bible) say Charles D. SKINNER was born in Lanesborough, PA., on Dec. 10, 1827. No mention was made of his father. Lanesboro or ³borough² was in Susquehanna County, the township of Harmony. In the 1830 census of Susquehanna county, there are 4 or 5 Skinners listed, but only one in the Harmony Township. On page 2, the top line is listed one Jacob SKINNER. In his household are listed: Males Females 1 under 5 1 15 to 20 2 5 to 10 1 40 to 50 2 10 to 15 1 15 to 20 1 20 to 30 1 40 to 50 No slaves are listed. Thanks to the wonderful work of Timothy SKINNER we now know that Jacob [V] SKINNER was the father of Abram [Abraham] [VI] SKINNER and that Abram SKINNER was the father of Charles D. [VII] SKINNER. Here is some more information on Jacob SKINNER: Jacob SKINNER (twin brother of Dr. Israel SKINNER) was born in 1778. Both brothers are listed in the 1810 Census of New York Orange County, page 452. Around 1814, (some records indicate earlier) the two brothers moved from Sullivan County, N.Y., to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He had already married Rhoda McDOWELL, who was born in 1781 and died at her son Williamıs home in Susquehanna in 1863. They had 13 children, ten sons and three daughters. Mrs. Skinner (Rhoda) when she came from Sullivan County, walked all the way, and brought her first born boy in her arms, much of the way through forest and along narrow paths that could not be called roads. Mr. Skinner was a devoted Methodist, and at his house the Methodist ministers, in going over their circuits, were often entertained, and in his barn the quarterly meetings were held, and to these meetings Methodist people from long distances came to enjoy privileges that are now seemingly commonplace. (Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Stocker, p. 557). An interesting item, is the fact that Jacob SKINNER sold his farm to a Samuel BRUSH, a relative through the marriage of Abram to May BRUSH. (Abram, Mary and her brother Benjamin moved to Leland in later years together. Benjamin later lived on the Charles D. SKINNER farm, in the census of 1860 a Benjamin Brush is listed in the Household of Charles D. SKINNER in Leland, Illinois as a ³farm laborer².) Apparently Jacob continued to live on the farm until his death in 1847, although he sold it to Brush in 1829. Brush had just married. The children of Jacob SKINNER, with the exception of three or four (Jacob I., Nathan, William), were said to have gone ³West.² In those days, Illinois was considered western territory. Abraham moved ³West² with his wife Mary and family.