- Rutherford B. Hayes Library Presidential Center:
Name: Morris P Skinner
Birth Date: abt 1811
Death Date: 17 Apr 1876
Age at Death: 65
Newspaper: Fostoria Review; Tiffin Weekly Tribune, Fostoria; Tiffin, Ohio
Newspaper Date: Apr 1876
Newspaper Page: p. 3, col. 4
Years Indexed: Mar. 1876 - Mar. 1897;May 1856 - December 1858
Newspaper Repository: Kaubisch Memorial Library - Fostoria, Oh; Tiffin Seneca Public Library - Tiffin, Oh; Kaubisch Memorial Library - Fostoria, Oh ; Tiffin Seneca Public Library - Tiffin, Oh
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- from the book:
HISTORY
OF
SENECA COUNTY,
OHIO.
CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE. COUNTY, ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS,
VILLAGES, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, INDUSTRIES, ETC,; PORTRAITS OF
EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; BIOGRAPHIES; HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; STATISTICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS MATTER, ETC,, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO:
WARNER, BEERS & CO.,
1886.
MORRIS P. SKINNER (deceased) was born in Franklin County, Penn., July 11, 1811; son of Enoch and Elizabeth (Wilson) Skinner. When he was but five years of age his father died, and when he was eleven years old he was thrown on his own resources. He learned the tanner's trade at Loudonville, Penn., and came to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1832, settling in what is now the limits of Fostoria, and embarked in the tanner's business, which he conducted for several years. He then engaged in farming and teaming, and cleared anal improved a tract of forty acres (the homestead, which is a part of the lot, is now occupied by his widow).
Mr. Skinner was twice married; by his first wife. Mary, daughter of John and Margaret Gorsuch, he had three children: Wilson, Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles Olmsted) and Mary A. (Mrs. C. C. Nestlerode), His second marriage was with Jane M. Searles, who was born March 20, 1821, and is said to have been the first white child born in Eden Township, this county; her parents, John and Jane (Duncan) Searles. settling there in 1820. To this union were born five children: Clara J. (Mrs. A. E. Ebersole), Louesa M. (Mrs. A. C. McClean), William M.. Frank J. (deceased) and Orlo D. (deceased).
Mr. Skinner was a self-made man, and by industry and frugality amassed a fine property. He was representative of this county to the Legislature in 1859; held the office of county commissioner two terms, and was justice of the peace for several years. In politics he was always a stanch Democrat.
He died April 17, 1876, in his sixty-fifth year. Mrs. Skinner has been a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fort-seven years.
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1811 - 1876 (64 years)
