Daniel Skinner and his Family
First Generation
1. Daniel
Skinner was born on 29 Jun 1744 in
Norton, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died in Jun 1841 in Bangor,
Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Daniel
served in the military Revolutionary War about 1776.
Daniel
was a Revolutionary War soldier in a Massachusetts Regiment. He was in Captain Samuel
White's
company as a corporal and later in Colonel John Dagget's Regiment as a
sergeant. He appears
not
to have asked for a pension.
In
1793, Daniel Skinner established the first permanent occupancy and
continuously
occupied farm in the area today known as Corinth,
Penobscot,
Maine. His settlement, which bears his
name, was located
about
two miles north of the Ohio Settlement (only one day's ride by horse from
Bangor, which is why he
had
constructed and ran the Skinner's Tavern, which was more like a hotel). Daniel arrived with his
cousin
Elisha
Skinner (who practiced both medicine and inn keeping), and six
children,
four of them grown. He arrived from
nearby Brewer, Maine. He
had
arrived in Brewer in 1787 from Mansfield, Massachusetts where he
kept
a tavern.
(Daniel
and his second wife, Mrs. Miriam Grover and son Asahel to Brewer, Maine. They later made
their
way to Corinth, Maine, in what was then Hancock County (it wasn't until 1816
that Penobscot
County
was created). Many of Daniel's
grandchildren, then, were born in Hancock County but died in
Penobscot
County without ever having moved!)
Daniel
Skinner did not receive title to his land until 1805, when he and
his
son, Asahel, paid $200 for two hundred acres of land which were
"intended
to be the same lots which Asahel and Daniel Skinner settled on
and
made improvements on". The
purchase price was considerably less
than
the market value of improved land and reflected the labor equity
which
the Skinners had invested in the land.
Daniel
had a frame house that stands near the site of
his original log
cabin,
a large structure which he occupied for many years. He chose this
vicinity
because he thought it was the right distance from Bangor for a
tavern
stand. The settlement--a village that
contained not only the
farm,
but a meeting house and a general store--was home to five
generations
of Skinners. The last was Nellie Skinner
who died while
living
on the family farm in 1981 at age 94.
In
the late 1970's the Skinner Settlement Association purchased the
property,
restored it and had plans to turn it into a museum of Early Maine
agriculture. In the late 1990's, the house was owned by
the Plummers, who lived in Alvin Skinner's
house. The structure has since been torn down.
Daniel
died at one month shy of his 98th birthday, and was known as the first
"Grand old man" of the
town.
On
page 15 of the town records of birth and marriage, his entry reads,
"born
June 29, O.S.D. 1744". He is
buried in lot 46 of the Boutelle Cemetery in West Corinth, Maine.
We
know that four generations earlier that Thomas Skinner was from
England. Thomas arrived in Mass. in the mid
seventeenth century.
Dorothy
Thomas Skinner West of Malden, MA, writes: Descendants 1982 p 19: To Corinth as
first
permanent
occupant in 1793 after six years in Brewer. To Brewer from Mansfield, MA, where
he had
kept
a tavern. Served as Corporal and Sergeant in Capt. Samuel White's Co, Col. John
Daggett's
Regiment,
Mass. Militia. Daniel and Abi both of Mansfiled, MA. (Some have given Abigail
Knapp, rather
than
Abigail Briggs, as wife.) "...Mr Daniel Skinner, formerly from Mansfield,
but more recently from
Brewer
(ME) with three sons and three daughters at all ages of maturity...and as the
members of the
Skinner
family married early and settled in their father's neighborhood, a numerous,
industrious and
intelligent
progeny soon filled the neighborhood with loving souls through whose veins ran
quietly the
Skinner
love of domestic life; and so numerous were they that the neighborhood was very
properly called
the
"Skinner Settlement." Palmer, Mason: Early Gleanings and Random
Recollections of the Town of
Corinth,
Maine, 1792-1883. page 5. Daniel served in 1775 in Capt. Samuel White's 7th
Co., Col. John
Daggett's
(Bristol Co.) Regt.; and as Sergeant, Lt. John Dean's Co., Col. Daggett's (4th
Bristol Co.) Regt.,
1776
(Massachusetts Militia). The house Daniel built in 1794 is still in use today
(1981). The area is
called
the "Skinner Settlement." The farm is, today, a working farm for
education in order that children
and
adults can see what farm life was like in those days. It has been designated an
Historical Site: a
corporation
receives State of Maine and private contributions to support it.
John
B Skinner III writes: "The
Skinners" Daniel Skinner born in Mansfiled, Mass. in 1743 was a
Revolutinary
War veteran. After the war he and his cousin once removed Dr. Elisha Skinner
came to
Orrington,
Province of Maine now Brewer. They came by boat and brought considerable
impedimenta;
even
a cow. His grandfathers clock along with some peices of furniture are still at
the old farm in Corinth.
After
getting established in Orrington, Daniel built a log cabin inn at what is now
Corinth some twenty
miles
north up Kenduskeag stream. This was a logical place for an inn as it was on
the direct route to the
Moosehead
Lake region. This was being opened up by trappers, etc. One of the first things
Daniel did
was
to bring his grandfathers clock up from Orrington. This he did by dismateling
it and making three
trips
on horse back over what must have been a very poor trail.
Daniel
married (1) Abigail Briggs daughter of Phinehas Briggs and Esther Phinney on 6 Dec 1770 in
Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts . Abigail was born on 4 Feb 1752 in Norton, Mansfield,
Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 2 Jul 1775 in Norton, Mansfield, Bristol,
Massachusetts.
Abigail
died with her third child, Abigail, of chilbirth complications.
Daniel
and Abigail had the following children:
+ 2 M i. Asahel
Skinner was born on 22 Aug 1771. He
died on 29 Mar 1868.
+ 3 F ii. Hepzebah
Skinner was born on 22 Jun 1773.
She died on 10 Oct 1861.
4 F iii. Abigail
Skinner was born on 2 Jul 1775 in
Norton, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 2 Jul 1775 in Norton,
Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts.
Daniel
married (2) Mrs. Miriam Grover on 2 May 1776 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. Mrs. died in
1790 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts.
Her
first name has also been spelled Mariam on the Skinner website.
Daniel
and Mrs. had the following children:
+ 5 F iv. Azubah
Skinner was born on 22 Feb 1777.
She died on 15 Dec 1819.
+ 6 M v. Elijah
"Squire" Skinner was born
on 22 Sep 1779. He died on 18 Apr 1857.
+ 7 F vi. Alona
Skinner was born on 14 Feb 1783.
She died on 22 Mar 1835.
+ 8 M vii. Mason
S. Skinner was born on 5 Jan
1785/1786. He died on 29 Jan 1872.
9
viii. Skinner
.
Second Generation
2. Asahel
Skinner (Daniel) was born on 22 Aug
1771 in Norton, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died on 29 Mar 1868 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He was buried in Miles Cemetery, Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
Asahel
was counted in a census in 1820 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He was counted in a
census in 1830 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He was counted in a census in 1850 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
Virginia
Kane suggests that his marriage to Phebe, daughter of Nathanial Gould, took
place on 22 Feb
1798
in Orrington, then Hancock County, Maine.
This announcement was published in Orrington at that
time.
Asahel
moved with his father and family from Brewer to Corinth, Maine.
According
to the "Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812", published by the
Adjutant General of Ohio
in
1916, he later served in the War of 1812 with Captain Roswell Austin's Company
of the Ohio Militia.
Asahel
is listed on page 84 of the reprint and page 68 of the original book. He must have done some
travel
before moving to the West definitaively, if this activity in the war is
accurate, as it is about 4 years
before
his move.
According
to John B. Skinner III. of Orono, Maine, Asahel Skinner was born in Mansfield,
MA, in 1771
the
first of Daniel's children. He grew discontented while living in the Skinner
Settlement hearing stories
of
Ohio. In fact, there was quite a rush to go to Ohio at that time. A group of
people in Orrington who
were
considering going finally located in what is part of Levant near the Skinner
Settlement and named it
the
Ohio Settlement. In 1816 Asahel, Phebe who was pregnant, the children and a cow
set out for Ohio.
They
did arrive finally and Asahel lived out his eighty years in Rutland, Ohio.
Asahel
abandoned twenty-five years of labor in Corinth to set out for Ohio about 1816
with a yoke of
oxen,
a cow, his pregnant wife and their thirteen children. Another child was expected in 1817, though it
would
appear that Phebe and last baby died close to the birth.
According
to Palmer's Random Recollections, written in 1883, he died near to that date,
father of 21
children. Newer information states that Asahel was 27
when his first child was born; he was 66 when the
last
arrived. That means that he had 23
children over the course of 39 years, 14 by his first wife and
nine
more with his second. When he died, his
youngest, if it had survived, would have been about 31
years
old; his oldest had she survived, would have been 70! Asahel died at age 97.
On
14 January 1854, Daniel W. Skinner, son of Daniel Skinner, appeared in Court
and made choice of
Asahel
Skinner (father or son?) as his guardian (from the Meigs County Journal, vol. A
1852-1859 film
#912888,
page 78).
Asahel
is buried next to his eldest son Daniel in Miles Cemeter. Poll records show that he voted in
Scipio
Township on 21 July 1830, 11 October 1831, 9 October 1832, 13 October 1846, 12 and
30
October
1847 and in Chester Township on 13 October 1863. The 1850 Meigs County, Ohio Census
shows
he and Jane in Rutland Township with Marinda and one other child whose name is
not legible.
The
child was 22 so it should be Darius Calvin.
Thomas E. is still hom, 18 years old and a laborer.
Larkin,
SC. Pioneer History of Meigs Co., OH. p136-7: Asahel and family moved from
Maine to Rutland
(Meigs
co), OH, June 1817. Mr. Skinner's first wife was Phoebe Gould, who died in Sept
1817. Two of
their
children remained in the East.
THE
LETTERS OF ASAHEL SKINNER
Here
is the first of Asahel's letters. We will have to publish them in installments.
I have used his spelling
and
lack of punctuation. No capitals to begin a sentence. No paragraphs. You know,
teachers did not
always
spell properly then. He was a fine penman, but the originals are yellow and do
not copy well.
Asahel
is pronounced ash-el.
-
John B. Skinner III for the Skinner Klansmen Update Vol. 2 No. 1 Winter 1985
Wayne
Township October 31, 1816
My
Affetinate Father. I take this opertunity to inform you that throuh the kind
dealing of God to us we are
all
in good health, and should rejoice to know that you enjoy the same blessing.
you will wonder when I
inform
you where I am. But according to my purpose which I named to you in my letter
of the 18 of
August,
I left Mansfield and knowing of no other way but to seek the charity of the
people in pursuing my
journey,
you will readily conclude that I had some hard struggles in my mind concerning
the undertaking,
but
I still felt it my duty to make the trial. When I started from Mansfield I had
by the help of friends about
18
dolars in money and 13 dolars in shoes and I concluded by the advice of my
friends to go through the
large
towns and citys for the sake of finding favors but I found it a hard subject to
introduce among
strangers.
but having so large a family it caused some people to ask questions which
opened the way for
me
to tell circumstances. I went through Providence but knowing that town had
suffered much by the
tempest
last, fall. I thought It not proper to ask anything of them. At Hartford I
found some small favours.
When
I came to Newhaven my money was nearly gone and my shoes were in poor demand.
here I
thought
I must make my case more publick than I had done. and I talked with some men
that apeared
friendly
and gave some encouragement but complained of a great scarcety of money a
friendly man by
the
name of Lynes enformed me of one Captain Peck of that town who had land for
sale in the county of
Crawford
and State of Pensilvany on the west side of the Allegany River from 100 to 120
miles from
Pitsburg.
and oferd to go with me to see him. acordingly I went and heard his proposals
which was to sell
his
land in 400 acre lots at 4 dolars an acre which I though would be a hard
bargain, but he said if I
would
go on to his land and drive a jackass and a she ass and colt and 45 Merieno
sheep. he would help
me
to 130 dolars and I mite charge him with their expenses and he would wait for
the rest during the time
of
payment for the land which is seven years. interest to begin next June. here I
felt to be in a great strait.
the
thoughts of not going to Rutland among old aquaintence and christian friends
together with
contracting
a det of about 1700 dolars apeared very unpleasant to me and my famaly. but the
people
considered
it a fine offer and concluded that. I had need of no beter asistance. after
mature
consideration
and consulting with my famaly a day and a half I took the money and gave my
note took
char
ye of the animals and started on the 28 of August. first to Albany 115 miles
then to Utica 96 then to
Cannan-Iaigua
112 then to Buffaloo on Lake Erie 95 then to Erie on the lake 90 then to
Meadville 44 total
552
there we arrived in 5 weeks from Newhaven. We was all favoured with good health
on our journey
but
Phebe and our 2 youngest children who were for some time troubled with bad
colds we had
remarkable
fine weather so that we lost but half a day by rain from Dedham through the
journey. When I
got
to Meadville I found a house provided Mr. Shaddok Captin Pecks partner who is
also land agent who
was
Informed of me by letter before I arrived. I have agreed with Mr Shaddok to
have but 200 acres of
land
at the same price per acre that they sell 400 acre lots, after spending several
days in search of land
I
have selected my land about 8 miles east of Meadville the nearest boat
navigation we have, which is on
french
creek a branch of the Allegany between 40 and 41 degrees of north latitude we
are less than 30
miles
from the state of Ohio on the west and about 330 from Rutland by water but not
so far by land. the
land
appears to be good for corn and grain in general. potatoes grow large and as
good as I have ever
seen.
turnips cabage beats apear to do well and it is a great grass country and not
hard to cultivate. the
country
apears to be healthy and abounds with excellent water. my lot has a brook
runing to the west
near
the south Line and I have found a living springs on the north side of the brook
3 of which are within
15
rods of where I am about building a house on the south side of a hansom ridge
with a neat growth of
timber
cheafly of whiteash redash and hickery containing about 100 acres. the other
part is mixed with
beach
rockmaple whitewood basswood and cucumber trees except about 20 acres on the
brook which is
mostly
small hemlock, we have neighbors very handy. we expect a school house to be
built this winter
within
half a mile and a grist mill within 2 miles. I have moved from Meadville within
2 miles of my work. I
have
part of my timber cut for my house and hope to have it raised and covered in 10
days. my
expences
was so much in moving that it took nearly all my money but Mr. Shaddok has
helped me to a
little
furniture and a cow and has agreed to find me in provision another year and
wait til I can raise
enough
to pay him and support my family. but I shall have a hard time to pay him if I
live, corn is slim this
year
and the country settles fast which makes bread hard. we expect that corn will
be 1 D rye 1 D
buckwheat
75 and patatoes 40 cents this winter and hyer next spring, the old settlers are
cheafly irish
and
duch and apear to be good neighbors but the new ones are from Newingland and
the people like
hunting
better than farming and are in det for their land and will sell out very cheap.
some people like the
Ohio
better that this and others prefer this I have seen several that have traviled
through that country for
land
and have purchased in these parts. they say tho land is more fertile there than
here but the water is
not
good which they consider a disadvantage to comfort and health. I do not
consider this country quite
so
good as I hoped to find but I think it is well worth leaving Penobscot for. in
all my trials I have never
been
sory that I undertook the journey but Phebe often tells of being sory. in your
last letter you wrote of
the
prosperity of Religion in several places which was good news to me but I have
nothing special to
write
of that kind at present please give my respects to all our family and enquiring
friends tell them I
should
be glad to see them in this country. it is easy to go to Ohio from here by
water I hope that some of
you
will write to me immediately Direct your letters to Meadville County of
Crawford and State of
Pensilvany
yours Asahel Skinner
THE
LETTERS OF ASAHEL SKINNER
(Asahel
(6), Daniel (5), John (4,3), Thomas (2), Thomas (1) of Malden)
furnished
by John B. Skinner, III
Vol.
2 No. 2 Spring 1985
Rutland
June the 30th 1817
Loving
Father and Friends I now take my pen to inform you that through the infinie
Goodness we are in
tolerable
health hoping these lines will find you well. I received your letter dated
December in 15 days
from
Bangor and was very glad to know that you were so well restored to health after
a severe sickness
you
were surprised no doubt to know that I had bought land in Pensylvania and now
you will wonder at
my
being here. Mr. Shaddock went to Newhaven last fawl and failed to provide for
me acording to the
contract
by which I found great difficulty in getting through the winter beyond what I
ever found before
through
that and other discouragements I formed a resignment to start anew for Ohio for
which reason I
have
neglected to write you til now. I expected to have been here in April. We have
left Abi and Hannah
both
behind having formed an acquantance with two brothers by the name of William
and Warner who
appear
industious young men and are making farms in Crawford County. Warner and Hannah
were
married
before we left them our only objection to this was on the acount of our having
to leave them
which
is a hard thing for parents but I flater myself that they will come after us. I
am well pleased with this
Country
both respect to the land and the people the town of Rutland lies 7 miles from
the river up a small
branch
called leading creek Mr. Kimbel and Mr. Church from Garland and Abel Gould from
Dover all live
in
this town. Mark Maloon and Mr. Sleeper from Piscatoqua. Luther Brown and Andrew
Kimbel and his
mother
and sister William Sargent Moses Samuel and David Dudley all live in Saulsbury
on the bank of
the
river near the mouth of this creek the most of the people are from Newingland
if any of you should
com
I should advise you to start by the 15th of August I wish you to write to me
immediately and let me
know
where you live these hard times. our children send their love to all their
cosens and wish to see the
day
when they hail them to Ohio So I must conclude subscribing myself to your well
wishes both in body
and
Soul direct your letter to Rutland Golia County and State of Ohio
Asahel
Skinner
Asahel
married (1) Phebe Gould daughter
of Nathaniel Gould Jr. and Ruthanna Bickford on 27 Jan 1798 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine. Phebe was born on 7 Oct 1774 in Orrington, Penobscot, Maine.
She died on 13 Aug 1817 in Rutland Township, Meigs, Ohio. She was buried in
Miles Cemetery, Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
At
the time she was born, Orrington was still a part of Hancock County, as
Penobscot County had not yet
been
formed. Phebe died not long after their
arrival in Meigs County, Ohio and following the birth of her
fourteenth
child, Lucinda. In the Skinner
Settlement Cemetery (Boutelle) in Corinth, Maine, there is a
Mary
J., wife of Gersham L. Gould. She had
died 4 October 1842 at 28 years 9 mos.
Could Gersham be
Phebe's
brother?
Asahel
and Phebe had the following children:
10 F i. Abigail
Skinner was born on 31 Oct 1798 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She died on 7 Dec 1882 in Guys Mills, Randolph
Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Abigail's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Abi was probably named for her grandmotehr
Abigale Briggs Skinner. She
stayed
near Meadsville when her family moved out west in 1817. Her history and that
of
Hanna can be found in the "Seth Wade/Waid Family" by Eloise Waid June
in 1980
with
thanks to the Crawford County Genealogical Society. They are on the 1850
Census
for Randolph Township, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. They are listed in
house
#740 with children beginning with Abby, age 19.
11 F ii. Hannah
Skinner was born on 9 Dec 1799 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She died on 25 Sep 1823 in Guys Mills, Randolph Township,
Somerset, Pennsylvania.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Hannah's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Hannah stayed near Pittsburg with her sister
and husband when her father
and
family moved to Ohio. She died with the
birth of her daughter Hannah.
Hannah married Warner
Waid in 1817 in Crawford County,
Pennsylvania. Warner was born in 1794.
12 M iii. Daniel
Skinner was born on 28 Mar 1801 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 13 Sep 1844 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He
was buried in Miles Cemetery, Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Daniel's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Daniel moved to Rutland in Meigs County,
Ohio with his family. Daniel was a
miller
in the southeast part of Rutland. He
was a constable one year and township
Trustee
seven years. His grave is next to his
father's in Miles Cemetery.
Daniel married (1)
Nancy Winn on 3 Nov 1825 in
Gallia County, Ohio.
Daniel married (2)
Hanna M. Tyler on 6 Oct 1836.
Hanna was born in 1818.
13 F iv. Alona
Skinner was born on 14 Aug 1802 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She died on 30 Jun 1881 in Meigs, Ohio.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Alona's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. It is unclear from Ginny Kane's notes if
Alona died in Meigs, the town, or
Meigs,
the county, or both in Ohio.
Alona married William
McKee on 30 Mar 1829 in Meigs
County, Ohio. William was born in 1792.
14 M v. Joseph
Skinner was born on 15 Nov 1803 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 21 Jun 1857 in Newman, Coles, Illinois.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Joseph's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Ginny Kane notes that he was born at the
Skinner Settlement in Corinth. She
does
not make the same notation for his siblings, stating simply Corinth.
Joseph married (1)
Mary Gaston on 2 Nov 1824 in
Meigs, Ohio. Mary was
born in 1808.
Joseph married (2)
Jane McFarlin on 30 Dec 1830.
15 M vi. Joel
Skinner was born on 31 Jul 1805 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 24 Oct 1887 in Union, Hardin, Iowa.
Joel
moved about 1870 to Union County, Iowa.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Joel's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Joel and Damia moved to illinois about 1834
and then back to Keokuk County,
iowa
in about 1844. This date is confirmed
by the Iowa 1841-1849 census, which
shows
him in Keokuk County twice in 1844. the
1850 Federal census also shows him
there. Sometime after Joel married Eleanor Whitted,
possibly in about 1870, they
moved
to Union County, Iowa. Four of his sons
served in te Civil War and Jasper, the
youngest,
died in conflict.
Joel married (1) Deidamia
Richardson on 9 Feb 1826 in
Vermillion County, Indiana. Deidamia was born in 1811.
Joel married (2) Eleanor
Whitted on 6 Mar 1848.
16 M vii. William
P. Skinner was born on 4 Nov 1806
in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
It
is to be noted that at the time of William's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Ginny Kane suggests that he was married in
Meigs County to a Mary Ann
Carver
and that they had three sons. Her notes
also say that her last name was
Crouse. Which is correct? In any event, William was an official in the transfer of
David's
land 22 Jan. 1856. He was listed there
as William P.
William married
(1) Mary Crouse .
William married
(2) Mrs. Anna Bowen Woodson on 8
Sep 1844. Mrs. was born in 1818.
+ 17 F viii. Olive
Skinner was born on 12 Mar 1808.
She died in 1842.
18 M ix. Isaac
Skinner 1 was born on 12
Apr 1809 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died in 1828 in Ohio Canal,
Fairfield, Butler, Ohio.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Isaac's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. Harvey P. Skinner stated to Ginny Kane that
Isaac had died while working on
the
Ohio Canal in Farifield County on what was called the Deep Cut. His death was
from
typhoid Fever. The same fever was the
cause of Daniel's wife and daughter's
death.
Typhoid
fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella
Typhi.
As
of 2001, in the United States about 400 cases occur each year, and 70% of these
are
acquired while traveling internationally. Typhoid fever was still common in the
developing
world at that time, where it affected about 12.5 million persons each
year.
Today,
Typhoid fever can be prevented and can usually be treated with
antibiotics.
Persons
with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal
tract.
In
addition, a small number of persons, called carriers, recover from typhoid
fever but
continue
to carry the bacteria. Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their
feces
(stool). In short, you can get typhoid fever if you
eat food or drink beverages that
have
been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated
with
S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food.
Therefore,
typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is
less
frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage. Once S. Typhi
bacteria
are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream. The body
reacts
with fever and other signs and symptoms. Persons with typhoid fever usually
have
a sustained fever as high as 103° to 104° F (39° to 40° C). They may also feel
weak,
or have stomach pains, headache, or loss of appetite. In some cases, patients
have
a rash of flat, rose-colored spots. The
only way to know for sure if an illness is
typhoid
fever is to have samples of stool or blood tested for the presence of S. Typhi.
19 F x. Edna
Skinner was born on 12 Sep 1810 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Edna's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County. According to sources close to Ginny Kane,
Edna was said to have "divorced
her
husband for cruelty".
Edna married Hiram
Chase on 14 Feb 1832 in Meigs
County, Ohio. The marriage ended in divorce.Hiram was born in 1808.
+ 20 F xi. Phebe
Skinner was born on 12 Aug 1812.
She died on 9 Oct 1885.
21 M xii. Asahel
Skinner Jr. was born on 12 Mar 1814
in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Asahel's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock
County.
Asahel married (1)
Lurancy D. Rathburn on 12 Dec
1837 in Meigs County, Ohio. Lurancy was born in 1818.
Asahel married (2)
Jane Hogue on 22 Apr 1856. Jane
was born in 1828.
22 M xiii. David
C. Skinner was born on 23 Apr 1816
in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania. He died in 1844 in Meigs County, Ohio.
There
is information on David's birth and some about his children to be found in Log
Cabin
Reminiscences, Newspaper, Pomeroy, Ohio January 11, 1900, written by
Harvey
P. Skinner.
A
David C. Skinner sells land in the town of Chester, Meigs County, Ohio in
January
1856. At that time he says he is of the Town of
Marietta in Washington County, Ohio.
On
22 September 1857, David sells land to Abraham Gotshall still in Marietta
Washingotn
County. His brother William P. Skinner
signed the document with
Stephen
Newton.
He
is listed in the 1860 Meigs County Census and is listed as a painter at the
time. He
may
have moved and moved back or hadn't moved his family yet. A death date of
1844
was given by Stillman Carter Larkin in his Pioneer History of Meigs County,
Ohio,
but
this can not be correct as he is in the 1850 census copy in the file! Land dealings
after
that seem to make it wrong also; perhaps the date was when he moved to
Washington
County. He was, according to Larkin, a
township trustee for seven years
in
Chester. In 1850, he was in Salisbury
Township, in Meigs County, and the children
through
Mate are confirmed by that census. That
census also gives and age and birth
place
for Elizabeth too.
David married Elizabeth
Burwell before 1840. Elizabeth was
born in 1821.
23 F xiv. Lucinda
Skinner was born on 4 Aug 1817. She
died as infant. She was buried in Miles Cemetery, Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
Lucinda
died at around the same time as her mother.
One would assume that they are
buried
together in Miles Cemetery.
Asahel
married (2) Jane Everton daughter of Thomas Everton and Relief Howe on 29 Mar
1818 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine. Jane was born on 31 Oct 1790 in Whitestown, Oneida, New York.
She died in 1861 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa.
They
had the following children:
24 F xv. Lucinda
Skinner was born on 26 Dec 1818 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. She died on 16 Feb 1901 in Meigs County, Ohio.
Lucinda's
marriage to Dr. Rathburn is recorded in Vol . 1, 1819-1852 film #313453.
Her
second marriage is taken from "Death Notices, Obituaries and Marriage
Notices"
as
gleaned from the Gallia County, Ohio newspapers from 1825-1875, as compiled by
Henrietta
C. Evans and Mary P. Wood. We assume
this is the same Lucinda as no
other
old enough to marry is seen in the area.
Lucinda's second marriage was
performed
by H. Wilcox, Esq. and was reported in the Gallapolis Journal.
Lucinda married
(1) Daniel Clark Rathburn M.D. on 31 Dec 1840 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. Daniel was born in 1786.
Lucinda married
(2) William Calwell on 9 Jun
1851.
25 F xvi. Elizabeth
Skinner was born on 22 Mar 1821 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. She died on 24 Jul 1864 in Meigs County, Ohio.
Elizabeth married Alexander
Hogue in Jul 1843 in Rutland,
Meigs, Ohio. Alexander was born in 1821.
Alexander
was a cabinet maker.
26 M xvii. John
Osborn Skinner M.D. was born on 6
Sep 1824 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He died on 15 Jan 1909 in East Washington,
Des Moines, Polk, Iowa.
John
Osborn Skinner, M.D. was a surgeon in the United States Army during the Civil
War. In August 1862, he was commissioned Asst.
Surgeon with the 10th Iowa. He
served
with Sherman on his march to the sea.
He mustered out in Louisiville in 1865
and
returned to his practice in Des Moines.
John studied for medicine under Drs. Alvin
and
D.C. Rathburn in Gallia County, Ohio.
He then moved to Iowa and located in
Charleston
where he practiced until 1857. From
there, he went to Des Moines. The
1850
Census for Iowa shows John O. in Fort Madison Township, Lee County (p.
332).
There
is further information in the Portrait and Biographical Album of Polk County.
John married Margaret
E. Everhart on 24 Apr 1850 in
Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa. Margaret was
born in 1827.
27 F xviii. Samantha
Skinner was born on 6 Nov 1825 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. She died on 13 Apr 1893 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. She
was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa.
In
1870, Samantha and William were residents of Lincoln County, Kansas. They were
there
four years as Samantha helped to raise her brother's twins, Nora and Darius
Calvin,
after their mother, Mary Maria Bing, had died.
She
was a member of the Prospect Park Methodist Episcopal Church and according to
her
obituary found in the Iowa State Register, April 14, 1893, her services were
held at
home
by the Rev. Dr. Holmes. She died at
5:45 P.M. at her residenceat 1223 Wylie
Street
in Des Moines.She was 67 years old. She
was born in Meigs County, Ohio,
married
in Gallia County and moved shortly thereafter to Ross County, Ohio where
they
lived until 1869 with the exception of the four years spent in Kansas. After 1874,
the
rest of their lives were spent in Des Moines.
She is buried in the Woodland
Cemetery
in Des Moines, Iowa.
Samantha married William
Davis Booton on 13 Jan 1850 in
Gallia County, Ohio. William was born in 1826.
+ 28 M xix. Darius
Calvin Skinner was born on 6 Mar
1828. He died on 7 Feb 1896.
29 F xx. Marinda
J. Skinner was born on 25 Oct 1830
in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. She died after 1900 in Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
Marinda married Samuel
B. Midkiff on 13 Aug 1867 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
Marinda
and Samuel had no children of their own.
He was a widower and had had two
or
three children when they were married.
They were married by Hugh B. Scott, MG
(Vol
4 Pg 278, rec #545).
+ 30 M xxi. Thomas
Everton Skinner was born on 7 Sep
1832. He died on 17 Oct 1895.
31 M xxii. Isaac
Skinner was born on 23 Aug 1836 in
Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He died on 17 Dec 1840 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
32 M xxiii. Skinner
was born after 1837.
Baby
died before naming.
3. Hepzebah
Skinner (Daniel) was born on 22 Jun
1773 in Norton, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 10 Oct 1861 in
Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
Reverand
Seth Noble performed their marriage.
She died at 87 years 4 months.
Hepzebah
married Deacon Lot Rider son of
John Rider and Hannah Atwood on 1 Nov 1796 in Orrington, Penobscot, Maine. Lot
was born on 19 Jun 1773 in Wellfleet, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died on 21
Apr 1846 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
Their
marriage is recorded on page 200 of the Brewer Holden Families book. The Skinner website
records
his name as being spelled Ryder.
Lot
and Hepzebah had the following children:
33 M i. Reverand
Lot Rider was born on 8 Jul 1797 in
Brewer, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 23 Sep 1825 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
Lot
was ordained on 9 Mar 1825.
It
is interesting to note that from the time Lot was born to the day he died,
Brewer had
gone
from being a part of Hancock County to Penobscot County. The change came
about
in 1816.
Lot married Sarah
K. Edes on 9 Aug 1825 in Bangor,
Penobscot, Maine.
+ 34 F ii. Bathsheba
Rider was born on 25 May 1799. She
died after 18 Jul 1878.
35 F iii. Clarissa
Rider was born on 19 Apr 1801 in
Maine. She died on 15 Sep 1874 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
Clarissa married Thomas
Gragg .
+ 36 F iv. Hannah
Rider was born on 31 Mar 1803. She
died on 18 Dec 1893.
37 F v. Louisa
Rider was born on 27 Dec 1804 in
Bangor, Penobscot, Maine. She died in May 1852 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
Bangor
was still a part of Hancock County at the time Louisa was born. She had five
children
according to Brewer and Holden Families.
Louisa married Reverand
Joseph R. Munsell .
Joseph
married first Louisa Rider. After her
death, he was wed to her sister, Sarah.
38 F vi. Sarah
Rider was born on 17 Nov 1805 in
Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
Ginny
Kane's notes also list Rev. Joseph R. Muncell as Sarah and Louisa's husband--
did
he marry both sisters over time?
Sarah married Reverand
Joseph R. Munsell in 1854.
Joseph
married first Louisa Rider. After her
death, he was wed to her sister, Sarah.
39 M vii. Joseph
Rider was born on 7 Feb 1810 in
Brewer, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 10 Apr 1878 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
Joseph
had lived on the Rider homestead but had no children.
Joseph married (1)
Clarissa Ware in Nov 1850.
Clarissa was born in 1819. She died before 1854.
Joseph married (2)
Sarah Cheney in 1854.
5. Azubah
Skinner (Daniel) was born on 22 Feb
1777 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 15 Dec 1819 in Skinner
Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She was buried in Boutelle
Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Ginny
Kane suggests that she died on the 19th.
Azubah
married Jacob Wheeler in 1797.
Jacob was born on 29 Sep 1771 in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died
in Apr 1842 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery,
(West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Jacob
had come to Bangor in the fall of 1793 and arrived in Corinth, ME in
spring
1794. He was originally from Petersham,
Massachusetts.(Corinth not yet
established.) After clearing land in the Eddy Settlement,
he sold out to
Robert
Campbell in 1797 and moved onto a one hundred sixteen-acre farm
in
the Ohio Settlement with his bride, Azubah Skinner.
Jacob
Wheeler paid $145 for one hundred acres of land in August 1801.
This
price was considerably less than the market value of improved land.
Less
than a month later, Wheeler resold the land to Moses Hodsdon for
$645. While Wheeler realized a $500 return for his
land improvements,
Hodsdon
showed a much quicker return if more modest profit by selling
half
of his Wheeler purchase a year later for $400.
He
then bought a farm from his brother-in-law, Asahel Skinner. His
house
was among the first frame houses in town and was an accepted
place
for religious services.
Wheeler
lost a nine-year old daughter in the 1819-20 winter, near the
same
time his wife Azubah passed on. After a
little over a year of
mourning,
he declared (May 20, 1821) his intention to marry Abigail
Bragdon.
He
is buried in lot 54 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
Jacob
and Azubah had the following children:
40 F i. Polly
Wheeler was born on 14 Nov 1799.
Was married
+ 41 F ii. Eunice
G. Wheeler was born on 23 Feb 1802.
She died on 24 Dec 1856.
42 F iii. Harriet
Wheeler was born on 1 Oct 1804.
Never
married
Harriet married Joseph
Hunting on 25 Jul 1824.
+ 43 M iv. Nelson
Wheeler was born on 28 Nov 1807. He
died on 21 May 1890.
44 F v. Caroline
Wheeler was born on 19 Sep 1811.
She died on 25 Feb 1820.
died
at age nine in 1819/20, shortly after her mother.
6. Elijah
"Squire" Skinner (Daniel)
was born on 22 Sep 1779 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died on 18 Apr
1857 in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in
Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Town
records show his wife name was Sally?
and that she died 21 Sept.
1827.
Elijah
was responsible, from the beginning , for most of the farming
activites
on his father's land. Had one of the
first producing apple
orchards
in town. He operated a cider mill, much
of whose product finds
its
way into the family tavern. He was
known locally as Squire Skinner.
It
was at his home that the first town meeting was held. The warrent
for
this meeting was issued by Moses Hodsdon, Justice of the Peace, of
Levant. It was held March 17, 1812.
Elijah
also became a Justice of the Peace.
His
tombstone in Boutelle Cemetery of West Corinth reads as follows:
Rest
father, rest! Thy work is done.
Thy
earthly pilgrimage is oer.
Thy
spirits life is just begun.
And
Heaven is thine for evermore.
He
was in the War of 1812. At his death,
he was buried in Lot 46 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
Ginny
Kane suggests that he and Nancy were wed on 11 Nov 1828.
Elijah
married (1) Sally Fisher on 7
Mar 1802 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. Sally was born on 21 Apr 1783 in Canton,
Norfolk, Massachusetts. She died on 24 Sep 1827 in Skinner Settlement, (West)
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Sally
died at age 44 and is buried in the Boutelle Cemetery, lot 46. The inscription on her monument
reads,
"Sally, wife of Elijah Skinner".
Elijah
and Sally had the following children:
45 M i. Nathan
Fisher Skinner was born on 28 Apr
1804 in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 29 Jun
1820 in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in
Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Nathan
died aged 16 yrs 2mos 1 day and is buried in Lot 46 of the Boutelle
Cemetery.
The
inscription on his monument reads, "Nathan, son of Elijah and Sally
Skinner".
46 F ii. Nancy
Skinner was born on 25 May 1806 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Nancy married Ephriam
Whitney .
47 M iii. Elijah
Skinner Jr. was born on 19 May 1809
in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 10 Feb
1881. He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Elijah
Skinner Jr. was supposed to marry Hannah Marshell (Sarah
Marshell
Bragdon's sister) but never did. The
wedding was cancelled and
neither
will ever marry nor even recognize each other from their
respective
pews at the meeting house.
He
died at the age of 71 yrs 8 mos 22 days and is buried in Lot 26 of the Boutelle
Cemetery. His grave is next to that of his brother,
Alvin.
Elijah
married Unknown on 26 Oct 1825
in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
+ 48 M iv. Alvin
Skinner was born on 23 Dec 1811. He
died on 13 Jan 1861.
49 F v. Sally
Skinner was born on 25 Feb 1815.
Are
Sarah and Sally the same person, just under two names, as her mother went by
both
also?
Her
name is listed as Sally Bragdon in her father's will. Her grave is next to her
husband's.
Sally married Bragdon
.
+ 50 F vi. Sarah
Skinner was born on 25 Feb 1815.
She died on 22 Apr 1902.
+ 51 F vii. Mary
Skinner was born on 3 Nov 1817. She
died on 16 Sep 1891.
52 M viii. George
F. Skinner was born on 23 Sep 1820.
He died on 25 Mar 1821. He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
George
died at age 6 mos 2 days and is buried in Lot 46 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
53 F ix. Harriet
Maria Skinner was born on 20 Feb
1823. She died on 22 Apr 1879.
Harriet married Roswell
Sibley on 29 May 1844 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Or
was his last name spelled Silsby?
54 M x. Daniel
Skinner was born on 28 Sep 1825 in
Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 6 Aug 1826 in
Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in Boutelle
Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Daniel
died at 10 months of age and is buried in Lot 46 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
55 M xi. Skinner
was born on 21 Sep 1827. He died on
24 Sep 1827.
Ginny
Kane suggests that this little one was born and died on the same day, 28 Sept
1827.
Elijah
married (2) Nancy Nicols Budge on 26 Oct 1828 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. Nancy was born in
1783. She died on 24 Feb 1834. She was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West)
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Nancy
died at age 50 and is buried in Lot 46 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
Elijah
and Nancy had the following children:
+ 56 M xii. George
Fisher Skinner was born on 12 Nov
1829. He died on 9 May 1917.
7. Alona
Skinner (Daniel) was born on 14 Feb
1783 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 22 Mar 1835 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
She
was the youngest girl.
Alona
married Richard Palmer on 20 Feb
1803 in Penobscot County, Maine. Richard was born on 5 Nov 1777 in Parsonfield,
York, Maine. He died on 1 Jan 1864 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried
in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Richard
Palmer also came to Corinth before 1800.
He was originally from Parsonsfield, Maine. He died
at
age 86 years 1 mo 25 days. His
homestead was later occupied by Charles H. Hodgdon.
Richard
and Alona had the following children:
+ 57 M i. Mason
Skinner Palmer was born on 27 Oct
1803. He died after 1883.
58 F ii. Mariam
Grover Palmer was born on 20 May
1806. She died on 25 Jul 1806.
59 F iii. Mariam
Grover Palmer was born on 31 May
1807.
Mariam married Moses
Stickney on 7 Feb 1828 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
60 F iv. Sally
Fisher Palmer was born on 5 Jan
1810.
61 F v. Julian
Palmer was born on 8 Aug 1815. She
died on 10 Mar 1816.
Died
aged 7 mos 3 days
62 F vi. Julian
Ann Budge Palmer was born on 24 Aug
1817.
+ 63 M vii. Melville
C. Palmer was born on 2 Jun 1822.
8. Mason
S. Skinner (Daniel) was born on 5
Jan 1785/1786 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died on 29 Jan 1872 in
Garland, Penobscot, Maine.
Mason
was the youngest child of the family.
He had a woodworking shop across from
Jacob
Wheeler's place and next to the school house in district No. 2 of
what
is today Corinth. Mason Skinner
"...manufactures tubs, boxes, kegs,
chairs,
and almost every wooden article required for use from trees
standing
within sight of his shop." He
later fails to pay for his
seventy-one
acres of land that he bought from Benjamin Joy in 1812 and
will
move a few miles North to Garland in 1822.
He
returns to Corinth in 1857 after several years as director of the
Katahdin
Iron Works and in the iron business in Mass.
Dorothy
Thomas Skinner West of Malden, MA includes the following notes: Descendants
1982 1511 Live
Oak
Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910 p 34: Mason was a woodworker. He moved to Garland
in 1822.
(References:
Wahl, Doris: Desendants of Daniel Skinner, Revolutionary War Soldier. / Palmer,
Mason:
Early
Gleanings and Random Recollections of the Town of Corinth, Maine, 1792-1883.
page 27 /
Wagner,
James Burnham: The First Century on the Eastern Frontier. Transitional Farming
in Corinth,
Maine.
Master's thesis, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME. page 27 / Ronald Barton) SKU
4(2):25 Ames,
Geneva
Joshua Michael COLMAN birth notice PO Box 458, GuilfordME04443
According
to John B. Skinner III, of Orono, Maine, "Mason Skinner, the seventh and
last of Daniel's
children,
was born in Mansfield also. This was in 1786. He stayed in Maine for the most
part in Garland.
He
was an excellent wood worker and blacksmith. Some of his work (blacksmith) can
be seen In Daniel's
house
today. His house still stands In the outskirts of Garland and the foundation of
his shop is across
the
road. He made everything for the home. Hand hewn rafters can be seen in his
house. His wife
Rebecca
Batchelder is where I get my middle name."
Mason
married Rebecca Batchelder on 9
Jun 1809 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine. Rebecca was born on 2 Apr 1788 in
Blaisdell Plantation, York, Maine. She died in 1875 in Maine.
Her
name is spelled Batchelder according to the Skinner Family website.
Mason
and Rebecca had the following children:
64 F i. Lucinda
Skinner was born on 2/03 Apr 1810.
She died on 13 Jul 1833 in Garland, Penobscot, Maine.
65 M ii. Amasa
Gover Skinner was born on 2 Jul
1811.
66 F iii. Abigail
Bachelder Skinner was born on 30
Aug 1813 in Maine. She died on 1 Jun 1824 in Maine.
67 M iv. Albert
Skinner was born on 17 Nov 1815. He
died on 27 May 1840.
Albert
was struck and killed by lightening.
+ 68 M v. John
Batchelder Skinner was born on 13
Jan 1818. He died on 15 Jan 1891.
69 M vi. Mason
Skinner Jr. was born on 3 Jan 1820.
He died on 26 Sep 1835 in Garland, Penobscot, Maine.
70 F vii. Eunice
W. Skinner was born on 10 Sep 1821.
She died about 22 Aug 1844.
Eunice's
marriage is listed in the IGI Batch No.:
M521631
Eunice married James
Lougee on 13 May 1842 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
71 M viii. Henry
Skinner .
Henry
joined the Union Army and lost his arm in the Battle of the
Wilderness.
72 M ix. Clifford
Skinner .
73 F x. Rebecca
Skinner was born in Dec 1827. She
died on 17 Sep 1849.
74 F xi. Pluma
Skinner was born on 9 Mar 1830.
75
xii. Skinner
.
76
xiii. Skinner
.
Sources
1. Center for Disease Control Division of
Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Typhoid Fever (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/typhoidfever_g.htm)."Text
created on the website on June 20, 2001.
Information collected on August 5, 2003.".
Third
Generation
17. Olive
Skinner (Asahel, Daniel) was born
on 12 Mar 1808 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She died in 1842 in Meigs, Ohio.
It
is to be noted that at the time of Olive's birth, Corinth was still a part of
Hancock County. She died in
childbirth
in Meigs, Ohio. Again, it is unclear if
that were the town or just the county.
Olive
married (1) John Henry Chase on
3 Apr 1829 in Meigs County, Ohio. John was born in 1806. He died before 1836.
Olive
married (2) Richard Reeves on 14
Jan 1836. Richard was born in 1803.
They
had the following children:
77 M i. Reeves
was born in 1842. He died in 1842.
This
son died before he was named. Olive
died with the son in 1842.
20. Phebe
Skinner (Asahel, Daniel) was born
on 12 Aug 1812. She died on 9 Oct 1885 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio.
walkersgrayhounds@hotmail.com
<mailto:walkersgrayhounds@hotmail.com>_I found your site
interesting,
especially as I am a lineal descendant of Daniel and Asahel Skinner (Asahel's
daughter
Phebe
Skinner married my 3d great-grandfather Williams Waid -- my mother's maiden
name was Waid --
in
Crawford Co., PA, where Asahel had moved about 1816)._Geoffrey Pope_White
Plains, New York
Ginny
Kane had listed William B. Hartinger (1813) as Phebe's husband, married 30 Sept
1836 in Meigs
County. Perhaps William was Abi's husband, to whom
Ginny had attributed Williams Waid.
Ginny had
also
spelled Phebe as Phoebe. Ginny's notes
state that Abi and Williams were wed in 1818 in Crawford
County,
Pennsylvania. According to her notes,
she died 73 years 1 month 27 days, and is buried
between
her son and husband.
Phebe
married Williams Waid in
Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
They
had the following children:
78 M i. Waid
.
28. Darius
Calvin Skinner (Asahel, Daniel) was
born on 6 Mar 1828 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He died on 7 Feb 1896 in Colorado
Township, Lincoln, Kansas.
Darius
was one of the Colorado Boys during the Civil War. He built the dug out the Thomas Skinners
livein
the first few years in Kansas.
Darius
was an Indian Scout and a well respected citizen. There is much in the book on Lincoln County
about
Darius. He filed for a Civil War
Pension on March 18, 1891. It says he
enlisted on September 3,
1861
in the First Calvary Regiment Colorado Company G at Denver Colorado and was
discharged at
Fort
Leavenworth on November 18, 1865.
According
to the Federal Census of 1870, Darius follows his brother Thomas. He is listed as 42 M. born
Ohio
with 1500 in land 1500 personal. In the
1880 Federal Census, he is listed as D. Calvin W. M. 53
with
wife Amanda 43, the children are hers and theirs. Marriage performed by J.R. Lawsen, L.P.
Methodist
Episcopal Church. All three of his
children were listed in the Twelve Mile School District No.
33
of Lincoln County, Kansas on July 28, 1893.
In
an article about Abram, Lincoln County, found in the Lincoln Public Library,
Darius was listed as one
of
the founding fathers of that town and the probate judge.
Darius
and Amanda were married at his home in Colorado.
Darius
married Mrs. Amanda Coswell Dart on 11 Nov 1877 in Colorado Township, Lincoln, Kansas. Mrs. was
born on 7 Nov 1834 in Cogswell, Rowan, Kentucky. She was buried in Mountain
View Cemetery, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado.
They
had the following children:
79 M i. Everton
Osborn Skinner was born on 18 Sep
1878 in Beverly, Lincoln, Kansas. He died on 24 Oct 1956 in Longmont, Boulder,
Colorado. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado.
80 F ii. Marinda
Jane Skinner was born on 20 Apr
1880 in Beverly, Lincoln, Kansas. She died on 14 Jul 1910 in Longmont, Boulder,
Colorado. She was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Longmont, Boulder,
Colorado.
Marinda married Rolla
D. Quest .
81 M iii. Asahel
D. Skinner was born on 21 Jan 1883
in Colorado Township, Lincoln, Kansas. He died on 21 Jun 1969 in Longmont,
Boulder, Colorado. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Longmont, Boulder,
Colorado.
Asahel married Elizabeth
Esther Vertz on 15 Feb 1911.
30. Thomas
Everton Skinner (Asahel, Daniel)
was born on 7 Sep 1832 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. He died on 17 Oct 1895 in
Beverly, Colorado Township, Lincoln, Kansas. He was buried1 in Monroe Cemetery, Beverly, Lincoln, Kansas.
Thomas
was a farmer. He was Ginny Kane's great
grandfather.
Family
Legend says that he was born six miles from the Ohio River. Thomas went to California during
the
Gold Rush by going down the Mississippi River by boat, crossing at the Isthmus
of Panama on foot,
and
taking another boat to California. He
didn't strike it rich and returned home after a few years of trying
. He married and soon got the traveling itch
again; this time, he went to Colorado.
He was there when
the
Civil War began. He joined the Colorado
Boys and was in service until 1866. The
1870 Federal
Census
shows Thomas 37 M.M. his wife 35, J.B.
13, E.S. 10, A.E. 8, C.D. 3/12 and M.M. /12
all male
except
the two M.M. This was in Colorado
Township of Lincoln county, Kansas. In
1880 Thomas is
shown
as 47 with Alfred 17 and Calvin 10.
Ginny
Kane indicates that "Uncle Bing and Uncle Vert were on their first trip
west at that time and Nora
was
living with Bing's wife, Aunt Lyde. A
memorial to Mary Maria Bing Skinner is on one side of the
stone
in Monroe Cemetery and Thomas on the other side. He was 62 years 11 months 1 day and she
39
years 5 months 4 days. It says also
"Not dead but gone before".
He owned Lots 1 and 2 in Monroe
Cemetery.
The
Monroe Cemetery, a smaller cemetery south of Beverly. Monroe really has a
pretty location and is a
peaceful
place to visit. Directions from Lincoln: Take K-18 East to the Beverly exit. Go
through Beverly
on
Main St. until it ends. The road curves to the right and becomes Miller Dr.,
then Monroe. Stay on that
road
as it leaves town. When the road forks, stay left (on pavement). The pavement
will end once you
cross
the river. You’ll be heading straight south. The cemetery is on the right. It
is about 3.3 miles from K-
18
to the front gates.
Thomas
married (1) Mary Maria Bing on
31 May 1856 in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio. Mary was born on 5 Oct 1834 in Rutland,
Meigs, Ohio. She died on 31 Aug 1874 in Lincoln Center, Lincoln, Kansas. She
was buried in North Beverly Cemetery, Beverly, Lincoln, Kansas .
Thomas
and Mary had the following children:
82 F i. Nora Skinner .
Nora
and Darius Calvin were twins.
83 M ii. Darius
Calvin Skinner was born on 18 Apr
1870 in Beverly, Lincoln, Kansas. He died on 14 Mar 1955 in Mancus, Moffat, Colorado.
He was buried in Solomon, Dickerson, Kansas.
Darius
Calvin and Nora were twins.
Calvin
Darius and Nora Mary were twins, the first born in Lincoln County, Kansas.
Ginny
Kane says, "Letters of his are used to establish much of this family
history. He
was
a railroad man and lived all over the west especially Colorado. They lived in
Boulder,
Elizabeth in Elbert County, Loveland, Golden, Montrose, and Windsor and
Goodland,
Kansas, that I am sure of." He was
a RR Telegrapher.
Darius married Stella
Grace Fleming on 8 Nov 1898 in
Solomon, Dickerson, Kansas. Stella was born on 8 Nov 1877 in Beverly, Lincoln,
Kansas. She died on 13 Oct 1946 in Mancus, Moffat, Colorado. She was buried in
Solomon, Dickerson, Kansas.
Thomas
married (2) Mrs. Sarah M. Nixon Lawrence on 24 Aug 1882. Mrs. was born in 1841.
34. Bathsheba
Rider (Hepzebah Skinner, Daniel)
was born on 25 May 1799 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine. She died after 18 Jul 1878
in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine.
It
is to be noted that Bangor was still a part of Hancock County at the time
Bathsheba was born.
Bathsheba
married Reverend Elijah Jones Jr. 2 son of Elijah Jones and Patience Fisher on 12
Nov 1822 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine. Elijah was born on 4 Dec 1790. He died on
29 Apr 1869 in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine.
Elijah
graduated Bangor Theological Seminary in Sep 1854 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
More
information about his family can be found in the Brewer Orrington, Holden
Eddington History and
Families.
Bangor
Theological Seminary, founded in 1814, is an ecumenical seminary in the
Congregational
tradition
of the United Church of Christ.
Elijah
and Bathsheba had the following children:
84 F i. Ann
Elizabeth Jones was born on 8 Oct
1823.
Ann married Lucius
Merrill on 8 Sep 1848 in Maine.
85 F ii. Clarissa
M. Jones was born on 12 Feb 1825.
Clarissa married D.S.
Whitehouse on 12 Oct 1859.
86 F iii. Harriet
Louise Jones was born on 6 Aug
1826.
+ 87 M iv. Reverend
William Ladd Jones was born on 18
Sep 1827. He died on 19 Nov 1908.
88 F v. Sophia
A. Jones was born on 18 Jun 1829.
Sophia married Edwin
Nelson on 6 May 1847 in Maine.
89 F vi. Sarah
Frances Jones was born on 23 Sep 1832.
90 F vii. Mary
Lobdell Jones was born on 27 Dec
1837.
91 M viii. Edward
E. Jones was born on 20 Sep 1842 in
Minot, Androscoggin, Maine.
In
1878, he was living in New York.
Edward married Emma
Hastings on 10 Jun 1875.
92 M ix. Myron
Winslow Jones was born on 25 Aug
1844 in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine.
He
was recently back from Colorado in 1878.
36. Hannah
Rider (Hepzebah Skinner, Daniel)
was born on 31 Mar 1803 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine. She died on 18 Dec 1893 in
Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
Brewer
had not yet become a part of Penobscot County when Hannah was born.
Hannah
married Oliver Farrington on 12
Nov 1820 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine. Oliver was born on 18 Sep 1797. He died
on 16 Sep 1863 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
They
had ten children.
Oliver
and Hannah had the following children:
93 M i. Henry
M. Farrington was born on 12 Jan
1824 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
94 F ii. Ann
Louisa Farrington was born on 29
Oct 1825.
95 F iii. Hannah
Jane Farrington was born on 3 Oct
1827 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
96 M iv. Joseph
Rider Farrington was born on 5 May
1830 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
97 F v. Sarah
Elizabeth Farrington was born on 17
May 1832 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
98 F vi. Clarissa
Elvira Farrington was born on 25
Oct 1835 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
99 M vii. Charles
Oliver Farrington was born on 4 May
1837 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
100 M viii. Edward
Payson Farrington was born on 24
Sep 1839 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
101 M ix. George
Shepard Farrington was born on 14
Jun 1842 in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine.
102 F x. Caroline
Amanda Farrington was born on 15
Apr 1845.
41. Eunice
G. Wheeler (Azubah Skinner, Daniel)
was born on 23 Feb 1802. She died on 24 Dec 1856. She was buried in Corinthian
Cemetery, (East) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
She
died age 54 yrs. 10 mos. Eunice and
John were married by Stephen
Dexter. She was buried in Division 10 Lot 12 of the
Corinthian Cemetery.
Eunice
married John Sweet on 8 Feb 1826
in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine. John was born about 24 Jul 1800. He died on 6 Feb
1877 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East)
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
John
died at age 76yrs 6mo 13dys
He
is buried in the Corinthian Cemetery, Division 10 Lot 12.
It
remains unclear as to how he is related to the Sweet family on the other side
of town, buried in the
Boutelle
Cemetery.
John
and Eunice had the following children:
103 F i. Phebe
Abbott Sweet was born on 22 Jun
1827 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Phebe's
birth is recorded in the Town of Corinth Records, available on the internet at
FamilySearch,
with record number C521631 1766 - 1875 0010809.
Phebe married George
Simpson on 23 Jun 1851 in Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
104 F ii. Harriet
Hunting Sweet was born on 1 Nov
1828. She died on 10 Oct 1851. She was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East)
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Harriet
died at the age of 22. She is buried in
Division 10 Lot 12 of the Corinthian
Cemetery.
105 F iii. Sylvia
Dudley Sweet was born on 15 Oct
1831.
Sylvia married Benjamin
M. Stevens on 15 Apr 1860 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
106 F iv. Eunice
Augusta Sweet was born on 8 Jun
1833.
Eunice married David
A. Bridges on 8 Jul 1868 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
107 F v. Hannah
M. Sweet was born in Dec 1835. She
died on 12 May 1838. She was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Hannah
died at two years six months. She is
buried in Division 10 Lot 12 of the
Corinthian
Cemetery.
108 F vi. Elmina
C. Sweet was born on 18 Oct 1841.
She died on 22 Jul 1908. She was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Elmina married George
A. Hammons on 23 Nov 1864 in
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
43. Nelson
Wheeler (Azubah Skinner, Daniel)
was born on 28 Nov 1807. He died on 21 May 1890. He was buried on 23 May 1980
in Exeter Center, Exeter, Penobscot, Maine.
At
age thirteen, it was said that Nelson was then old enough to "bear a
man's
burden on the farm". In 1835, he
opened a store and barrel and oar
works
in the Skinner settlement. He went back
to farming after the
1837
depression. His store and barrel and
oars works employed a large
number
of men.
See
Wheeler's obituary in the Bangor Whig and Courier, June 17, 1890.
Nelson's
brother, Joseph Bragdon, writes at the time of his death that
nelson
"died of old age and softening of the brain".
He
died 80 yrs 5mos 23 days
Nelson
married Abigail B. Hill daughter
of Francis Hill Colonel and Elizabeth in 1839. Abigail died on 5 Sep 1868. She
was buried in Exeter Center, Exeter, Penobscot, Maine.
Nelson's
wife Abigail was the sister to his half-brother, Joseph's wife
Cordelia. She died age 52 yrs 9 mos
He
stone reads:
Asleep
in Jesus blessed sleep,
from
which none ever wakes to weep.
Nelson
and Abigail had the following children:
109 M i. Roscoel
Wheeler died on 2 Mar 1855. He was
buried in Exeter Center, Exeter, Penobscot, Maine.
died
5 yrs 10 mos.
Stone
reads
We
loved thee up earth
May
we meet thee in heaven
the
yonder flower that withered here
to
angels hands is given
Transplanted
from its earthly sphere
It
blooms again in Heaven
48. Alvin
Skinner (Elijah "Squire",
Daniel) was born on 23 Dec 1811 in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine. He died on 13 Jan 1861 in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Alvin
Skinner opened a store, barrel and oar works and cooperative in the
late
1830's and operated it until his death in 1861. He also had a copper
shop
at the time of his death. He died 49yrs
20dys and is buried in Lot 26 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
His
probate page 200 Penobscot County Probate Record Vol. 1 lists the
administrators of his estate as
brother
Elijah and George F. His children were
all under 14 years of age at the time.
His
wedding is listed in Batch No.:
M521631 of the IGI.
Alvin
married Climena Washburn on 1
Jan 1850 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. Climena was born in 1825.
They
had the following children:
110 F i. Sarah
L. Skinner was born in 1852 in
Penobscot County, Maine.
111 M ii. Charles
G.W. Skinner was born in 1854 in
Penobscot County, Maine.
112 M iii. Frederick
E. Skinner was born in 1859.
50. Sarah
Skinner (Elijah "Squire",
Daniel) was born on 25 Feb 1815. She died on 22 Apr 1902. She was buried in
Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Her
existence is not confirmed in the birth records of the town.
Sarah
married Enoch Hunting Bragdon son of Joseph Bragdon and Abigail (Bragdon) Hunting on 25 Feb 1846
in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. Enoch was born in 1814. He died on 27 Mar 1870.
He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Everyone
referered to him as "Hunting" to avoid confusion with his
brother
whose initials were the same. He died
at age 56yrs 2mo 25dys and is buried in the Lot 33 of the
Boutelle
Cemetery.
Enoch
and Sarah had the following children:
113 M i. Charles
Bragdon was born in 1837 in
Penobscot County, Maine.
114 F ii. Charlissa
Bragdon was born in 1842. She died
on 2 Dec 1862 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She was buried on 3 Dec 1862 in
Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Died
at 11yrs 18dys. in 1862, probably of the Diptheria outbreak in town.
115 M iii. Frank
O. Bragdon was born in 1847. He
died on 29 Nov 1862 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He was buried in Boutelle
Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Frank
died at 6yrs 3mo 26dys in Nov. 1862, probably of the diptheria that
swept
the town. Joseph B. Wheeler writes of
going to Bangor to buy a
burial
outfit and a coffin. He paid $5 for the
coffin, $1.5o for silk
handkerchief,
$1.25 for gloves, $2.25 for robe and collar, and $6 for coat. He is buried
in
Lot 33 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
116 F iv. Emma
J. Bragdon was born on 23 Mar 1854.
She died on 16 Sep 1896.
51. Mary
Skinner (Elijah "Squire",
Daniel) was born on 3 Nov 1817. She died on 16 Sep 1891. She was buried in
Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
She
died at 73 yrs 10 mos 13 days; she is buried in Lot 21 of the Boutelle
Cemetery.
Her
stone reads: "We cherish thy
memory".
Mary
married Aaron French on 13 Mar
1843 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. Aaron was born on 8 Mar 1816. He died on 27
Dec 1911. He was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Aaron
had two daughters, Marietta and Maria, and one son, Lysander.
He
came to the area, on Wadleigh hill, about 1840. He built a substantial house hauling slate shingles
some
thirty miles from the Brownville quarry by team and wagon. His house and that of Enoch Bragdon
are
the only ones on the road to boast slate roofs.
On
July 3, 1862, he bought a pig from Joseph Bragdon Wheeler for $1.50. Later that same year,
Wheeler
hired French to stone in the bottom of a new well. He was paid $1.41 for a day's work.
Aaron
is buried in Lot 21 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
Aaron
and Mary had the following children:
117 M i. Lysander
French was born about 1844. He died
on 28 Nov 1865. He was buried on 29 Nov 1865 in Boutelle Cemetery, (West)
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
Joseph
B. Wheeler writes in 1865 that on November 27, he went to Exeter
to
fetch the Doctor Chase to come and see Lysander. Lysander
unfortunately
did not survive the night and died at about 2 o'clock. He
was
buried the following afternoon on November 29.
It was a warm and
pleasant
afternoon for the funeral which Nelson and Abigail attended.
Oakman's
sang.
Lysander
died 21yrs 7mo 5dys and is buried in Lot 21 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
118 F ii. Marietta
E. French was born in 1848. She
died on 17 Jan 1914. She was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
E.C.A.
class of 1866. Her gravestone reads
Maretta E. as her name; she is buried in
Division
3 lot 18&19 of the Corinthian Cemetery.
Marietta married Charles
T. Thissel son of Honorable John
Thissel and Allaseba B. Ramsdell. Charles was born on 10 Aug 1832. He died on
15 May 1906. He was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East) Corinth, Penobscot,
Maine.
After
his father's death, Charles occupied his father's house. Charles is buried in the
Corinthian
Cemetery, Division 3 Lots 18 & 19.
119 F iii. Maria
E. French was born about 1850. She
died on 15 Nov 1870. She was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
Maria
died at age 19 and 9 mos. She is buried
in Lot 21 of the Boutelle Cemetery.
56. George
Fisher Skinner (Elijah
"Squire", Daniel) was born on 12 Nov 1829 in Penobscot County, Maine.
He died on 9 May 1917. He was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine.
At his father's death, son George took over the farm. He
proved
himself as able a farmer as his father and added extensively to
orchards
on the farm. He is buried in Division
12 lot 10 of the Corinthian Cemetery.
Ginny
Kane suggests that he died on the 20 May 1917.
George
married (1) Sarah H. Deering on
4 Jul 1852 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. Sarah was born on 8 Nov 1832. She died
on 9 May 1897. She was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, (East) Corinth, Penobscot,
Maine.
Sarah
is buried in Division 12 Lot 10 of the Corinthian Cemetery. Or was her middle name begun with a J
.?
George
and Sarah had the following children:
+ 120 M i. Frank
Harris Skinner was born on 16 Jun
1858.
George
married (2) Elizabeth Crosby .
57. Mason
Skinner Palmer 3 (Alona
Skinner, Daniel) was born on 27 Oct 1803 in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth,
Penobscot, Maine. He died after 1883.
Mason
Skinner Palmer was the town clerk of Corinth, Maine around 1831.
In 1883, Mason published a little book entitled, Early Gleanings and
Random Recollections from the
Town of Corinth, Maine.
On pages 22-23, he writes of himself saying:
"Ever since Maine became a
State, her citizens have complained of the injustice done the grand
old
Pine, as represented in the device of our State Seal, and a citizen of Corinth
forwarded the following
petition
to the Legislature, which was respectfully received and read to the
Senate."
"To the Honorable Senate and
House of Representatives of Maine, in Legislature assembled:
"Respectfully represents your
petitioner, a citizen of the town of Corinth,
in the County of
Penobscot
and State of Maine, that more than half a century ago he was permitted to enjoy
his first
remembered
outlook upon the dense forests of the “Pine Tree State;”-that his early
domicile, and the
rocking
cradle of his infancy, were alike made of the flesh colored pines so bountifully
interspersed
throughout
our groves and woodlands;--that while his nursing childhood drew nutriment from
its
surroundings,
producing enlargement from what it fed upon, ,the balsamic properties of the
pine
permeated
the entire make up of his complex nature-manhood and pinehood.
"The marvelous beauty of a pine
grown upon the soil of Norridgewock in our State, one hundred
and
fifty feet in length and four and one-half feet in diameter, while little
Liberty in Waldo County,
competing
for the mastery in tree growing, gave a pine seven feet at stump, making ten
thousand six
hundred
and ten feet of square edged boards, claimed the admiration of your
petitioner’s juvenile life;
and
while his nursery tales partook largely of mythology and fable, it was not
difficult to believe that at a
Congress
of Trees, the dimpled eye of the bird’s
eyed maple, clearly saw the coming popularity of the
majestic
pine, and secured and honest Congressional vote, declaring her the queen of the
woods, at
which
all the pines, with waving branches invoked the gentle winds of the breathing
hill, thus chanting a
melody
so soft and plaintively sweet, that Orpheus ceased his notes, and dancing trees
gave listening
ear
to the Te Deum Laudamus of the worshiping pine-a music sweeter than breathings
of harp or lute,
until
woodlands felt the influence of the religion of the forest, and the inspired
poet wrote, “The groves
were
God’s first Temple.”
"And while thus entranced with
the pine and its worship, the historical readings of your petitioner
taught
him, that as early as the 17th century, good mother Massachusetts so loved the
gold in the mine
and
the pine in the forest, that she stamped the gold with the figure of the pine, giving
it a currency
known
as Pine Tree Money; and while he loved the current coin, and hoping for its
plenteous
accumulation,
coming years brought anticipated manhood and Maine’s Governor honored your
petitioner
with
a commission bearing the seal of the State.
Then the eye fell sadly upon the meager bush
representing
the pine of Maine!-a nondescript-a mere shrub without majestic comeliness, ,a
forest fungus
!
"All that had been said and
written on the beauty of the pine came hastily back and forced
memory’s
doors for entrance, and your petitioner sorrowed that in early life he had said
to one of Maine’s
fairest
daughters-now his wife-that she was as graceful in stature as the pine; -at a
mere glance at the
bush
on the seal, the fair one declined the honor of resemblance, preferring rather
being the spruce girl
of
the period.
"Sensitively believing that the
engraved pine upon the State’s Seal, indecorously and strangely
symbolizes
a meanness and dwarfage no where found in Maine’s varied industries, judicial
powers or
legislative
bodies, your petitioner has long hoped for a more truthful representation of
Maine as she is,
engraved,
not only upon memories tablet’s, but fittingly depicted in signet and shield.
"To study the pine as now
engraven upon the seal of our State for semblance of the pine of our
forests
would be as futile as to read the description of animals in zoological cabinets
to find the likeness
of
the beast rising out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns, seen by John
the Revelator.
Therefore,
and that your memorialist may no longer pine over the demoralized pinery of his
State, he
asks
that the seal now in use be at once remodeled and Re Pined, and in duty bound
will ever pray.
"Corinth, January, 1879. Mason S. Palmer.
"Mason S. Palmer of Corinth,
was born in that town October 27, 1803.
His first remembered
outlook
upon the world was among forests, and then recently felled trees, and small
patches of cleared
land
incident to farm making. To this work,
he devoted his days of boyhood, excepting always such
times
as he was enabled to attend such schools as were early introduced into the
township. In early life
he
became a teacher, and on arriving at his majority was chosen superintendent of
schools. He
afterward
wrote in the various county offices, at a suitable age he was appointed
assistant Post Master
at
Bangor, and left that position was appointed Register of Probate for Penobscot
County, which office
he
held for many years. For several years
Mr. Palmer had charge of the Katahdin Iron Company in
Piscataquis
County, from which he went to Briggs Iron Company, Berkshire County,
Massachusetts, as it
agent,
where he was engaged nine years, during which time he served one term as a
member of the
Legislature
of Massachusetts and was also appointed clerk of the court of insolvency for
the county of
Berkshire
and one of the supervisors of schools.
After suffering seriously by fire, he returned to his
native
town, and at this writing, resides on the farm in the neighborhood of his
birth. Mr. Palmer married
Miss
Mary Johnson Coy, daughter of the late Captain Henry Coy, of Minot, Maine, and
officer of the war
of
1812."
Mason
married Mary Johnson Coy daughter of Captain Henry Coy on 7 Mar 1833. Mary was born in
Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine.
They
had the following children:
121 F i. Mary
Celia Palmer was born on 6 Oct 1842
in Skinner Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She died on 6 Aug 1844
in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. She was buried in Boutelle Cemetery, (West)
Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
She
was four years 10 months old when she died.
She is buried in Lot 53 of the
Boutelle
Cemetery.
122 M ii. Henry
W. Palmer 4 was born in
1846. He died before 1856.
Henry's
father writes in 1883 the following description: "During the war of the rebellion,
Henry
W. Palmer enlisted in Company H., 31st Regiment Maine Volunteers, and in the
battle
at the Wilderness lost his entire right arm.
On the same day of amputation on
the
field, he travelled on foot sixteen miles to the nearest hospital. He is not at the
home
of his boyhood, a lover of books, has a large library, caring for his parents,
and
with
his younger brother, Clifford E. Palmer, manages the farm made by their father,
Mason
S. Palmer, more than a half century ago."
123 M iii. Clifford
E. Palmer was born in 1850. He died
before 1860.
124 M iv. Henry
W. Palmer was born in 1856.
125 M v. Clifford
E. Palmer was born in 1860.
63. Melville
C. Palmer (Alona Skinner, Daniel)
was born on 2 Jun 1822.
Mason
Skinner Palmer writes of Melville in 1883:
"Melville C. Palmer, youngest son of the late Richard
Palmer,
was born June 12, 1822 married Miss Elizabeth Leavitt daughter of Thomas
Leavitt; he
purchased
the farm first occupied by Deacon Stephen Dexter; made improvements on
buildings already
erected,
adding all necessary outbuildings including a large and finely finished
stable. They have had
five
children one died early in childhood, and Mary H. lived to grow to perfect
womanhood, and thus
growing
grew deeply into the affection of parents and all who knew her. She died recently aged 26 years.
"
Melville
married Elizabeth Leavitt daughter of Thomas Leavitt on 26 Nov 1848 in Corinth, Penobscot,
Maine.
They
had the following children:
126 F i. Mary
H. Palmer .
127 M ii. Fairfield
M. Palmer .
Fairfield
M. is the oldest son.
128 M iii. Charles
L. Palmer .
129
iv. Palmer
.
This
child died early in childhood.
130 M v. Frank
Palmer .
68. John
Batchelder Skinner (Mason S.,
Daniel) was born on 13 Jan 1818 in Corinth, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 15 Jan
1891 in Veazie, Penobscot, Maine.
He
was a cooper. He served in the Civil War.
John
B. Skinner and Joanna Grover Skinner are 3rd cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors
are
John Skinner and Sarah Burroughs Porter.
They later became spouses.
According
to John B. Skiner, III, of Orono, Maine, "John B. Skinner, the fifth of
Mason's children, was
born
in 1818 at the Skinner Settlement. He married first Joanna Grover Skinner who
was Dr. Elisha's
granddaughter.
They lived in Garland not far from his father.
After the Civil War and Joanna's death, he
married
Isabella Hathorn McDonald. He lived the rest of his life in Veazie operating a
cooper shop."
He
may have had two children by wife Isabelle also.
John
married (1) Joanna Grover Skinner daughter of Alfred Skinner and Abigail Hill in Nov 1842. Joanna
was born in Dec 1818. She was christened in Dec 1818.
They
had the following children:
131 M i. Otis
Skinner was born about 1842 in
Penobscot County, Maine. He died about 1857 in Penobscot County, Maine.
Otis
was fourteen when he died.
132 M ii. John
Batchelder Skinner was born about
1842. He died about 1857.
John
died very young.
133 F iii. Carrie
L. Skinner was born on 6 Aug 1857
in Garland, Penobscot, Maine. She died on 25 Feb 1933 in Portland, Cumberland,
Maine.
Carrie married Allison
M. Pierce on 1 Jan 1878.
John
married (2) Isabella Hathorn McDonald in 1865.
They
had the following children:
+ 134 M iv. Otis
A. Skinner was born on 4 May 1874.
He died on 10 Sep 1925.
+ 135 M v. John
B. Skinner Jr. was born on 9 Nov
1875. He died on 4 Sep 1939.
Sources
1. Bill and Diana Sowers, Lincoln County Kansas
Research Guide (http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/dirresearch.htm).
2. Bangor Theological Seminary ,
http://www.bts.edu/."Information collected on August 7, 2003."Bangor
Seminary was born in the midst of the religious awakening that stirred and
renewed congregations in New England during the early 1800's. Led by a group of
Congregational ministers and lay leaders who wanted to create a center of
theological study in northern New England, the Society for Theological
Education met on July 27, 1811 in Portland to establish a school. Jonathan
Fisher, a founding trustee, described the urgency and importance of the
school's mission: "I am strongly adverse to an unlearned ministry, but if
in this district we wait to be supplied from other institutions, I am fully
persuaded that the ground would be preoccupied by Sectarians, many of whom will
not only be unlearned, but very unlearned."
Granted
a charter on February 25, 1814, by the Great and General Court of
Massachusetts, the Seminary briefly found a home in Hampden before moving to
its present Bangor location in 1819. The Seminary began to assume its present
shape under the leadership of the Reverend Enoch Pond. A noted scholar and
writer, Pond joined the faculty in 1833, became president in 1856, and remained
in that capacity until his death in 1882.
3. Mason S. Palmer, Early Gleanings and Random
Recollections of the Town of Corinth, Maine, from 1792 to 1883. (Bangor:
Press of B.A. Burr, (Whig and Courier Job Office.) 1883.), Corinth Historical Society, P.O. Box
541, Corinth, Maine 04427,
https://www.angelfire.com/me2/corinthhistorical."Copies of the "Early
Gleanings" can be found at the Atkins Memorial Library and the Corinth
Historical Society in Corinth, Maine.
The 1883 text was reprinted by James R. Wilson in 2003 for the benefit
of the Corinth Historical Society."The original text for the "Early
Gleanings" appeared in the "History of Penobscot County", by
Williams, Chase and Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
Copies of this text can be found at the Bangor Public Library, Bangor,
Maine.Mason Skinner Palmer was the author of this book.
4. Mason S. Palmer, Early Gleanings and Random
Recollections of the Town of Corinth, Maine, from 1792 to 1883. .
Fourth
Generation
87. Reverend
William Ladd Jones 1 (Bathsheba Rider, Hepzebah Skinner, Daniel) was born on 18 Sep
1827 in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine. He died on 19 Nov 1908 in Cloverdale,
Sonoma, California.
William
graduated Bowdoin College in 1845/1849 in Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine. He
graduated Bangor Theological Seminary in 1850 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
In
1878, he was preaching in Oakland, California.
He was called to be President of Oahu College in the
Sandwich
Islands about that time. He was their
seventh President. According to Kylee
Kurita and Nani
Ho
of the Punahou Alumni House, during his tenure enrollment at the college grew,
he sold or leased
parts
of the Punahou Land for income to improve buildings on campus, and he brought
such innovations
at
Punahou: more music, curriculum sports and vocational training. He is also known to have been a
strict
disciplinarian. Finally, he stated
Punahou Preparatory Department at the Armstrong Stone House
on
Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii in 1881.
After Punahou, Rev. Jones was a pastor for 14 years at
Cloverdale,
California, where he passed away 11/19/1908.__Children: Dr. H.M. Jones of
Pomona_Dr. Wm.
F.
Jones of San Rafael_Mrs. F.E. Adams of Pomona (later became a drawing
instructor at Punahou)_One
more
son
William
married (1) Annie L. Farrington on 28 Sep 1854 in Maine. Annie was born in Brewer, Penobscot,
Maine. She died in 1898.
They
had the following children:
136 M i. Doctor H. M. Jones .
137 M ii. Doctor
William F. Jones .
138 F iii. F. E. Jones .
F. E. Jones
married Adams .
139 M iv. Jones
.
William
married (2) Elizabeth Armstrong in 1901. Elizabeth was born in Guerneville, Sonoma, California.
120. Frank
Harris Skinner (George Fisher,
Elijah "Squire", Daniel) was born on 16 Jun 1858. He died in Detroit,
Wayne, Michigan.
Frank
married Eva Gay .
They
had the following children:
140 M i. Fred
Skinner died in 1948.
Fred
was the last Skinner to own Daniel's house.
He and Nellie were married in the
parlor
of the family home.
Fred married Nellie
Hannah in Sep 1906 in Skinner
Settlement, (West) Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.
134. Otis
A. Skinner (John Batchelder, Mason
S., Daniel) was born on 4 May 1874 in Veazie, Penobscot, Maine. He died on 10
Sep 1925 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
Otis
married Mildred Mosher Caything on 28 Jun 1920.
Otis
and Mildred had the following children:
141 F i. Elaine Otis Skinner .
135. John
B. Skinner Jr. (John Batchelder,
Mason S., Daniel) was born on 9 Nov 1875 in Veazie, Penobscot, Maine. He died
on 4 Sep 1939 in Veazie, Penobscot, Maine.
John
married Millie E. Spencer . Millie was born on 20 Jun 1872. She died on
15 Aug 1945.
They
had the following children:
142 M i. John
Batchelder Skinner III was born on
14 Feb 1907 in Veazie, Penobscot, Maine. He died after 1981.
Sources
1. Punahou School (http://www.punahou.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&PageID=379)."1864
_William De Witt Alexander, who attended Punahou from 1842 to 1849 before
earning a law degree from Yale, began a 17-year term as Punahou's fourth
president. He was the first Punahou alumnus to serve in that capacity. __1875
_Honolulu's first spelling tournament was held on May 20 at the dining room of
the Hawaiian Hotel. Punahou teacher Frances Church won. __1878 _Oahu College's
first graduating class consisted of six students.1934 _The school's name was
officially changed from Oahu College back to Punahou School.".