History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 582.
[Bourbon County]    [Ruddel's Mills Precinct]

WILLIAM SKINNER, farmer; P. O. Ruddel's Mills; among those who took an
active part in the war for Independence, and who was an intimate friend
and neighbor of General Washington, was Nathaniel SKinner, who served
through that struggle as Quartermaster, settling after the war on the now
historic Bull Run, in Loudoun County, where he passed the remainder of his
life, and raising a family, one of whose sons was James, who served as
Captain in the war of 1812, and was the father of William, our subject,
who was born Nov. 1, 1813.  In 1815, James moved to Bourbon County, Ky.,
with his wife and two infant children, and settled upon a farm, at the
same time working at his trade wagonmaker and blacksmith; he died in
Harrison County in his sixty-eighth year, his wife having preceded him
several years; they had eight children, William being the oldest.  Mr.
Skinner has been an energetic business man, and for a number of years
traded largely in mules, his market being Richmond, Va.; also dealt in
cattle and hogs.  He was married, Dec. 6, 1853, to Mrs. Lucy J. Fry, whose
maiden name was Eales, and by which union there are two children: Fanny
L., wife of W. H. Kerr, and James W.  Mr. and Mrs. S. [sic] are members of
the Christian Church.  Mr. Skinner has been identified with the unpopular
party in Kentucky, but he has many warm friends, and his integrity as a
man is undoubted, he having polled the largest vote ever given to a
Republican in Bourbon County, in 1881, when he made the canvass for the
Legislature; he owns 356 acres of land, and has an elegant home known as
"Forest Hill."

Skinner Fry Eales Kerr
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Harrison-KY Loudoun-VA

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