Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 3rd ed. 1886.
Lyon Co.

THOMAS C. SKINNER, of the firm of Irwin & Skinner, Kuttawa, and son of 
F. H. Skinner, was born in Eddyville, Lyon Co., Ky., June 14, 1844.  He
attended the local schools until thirteen years old, when he went to
Bethel College, Tennessee.  At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the
Confederate service, and served until the close of the war.  He
participated in the battle of Fort Donelson, where he was taken prisoner
and held on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, for six months.  After being
exchanged he returned to his command and was appointed a cadet in the
Confederate army, and assigned to duty with Gen. H. B. Lyon, as aid, with
the rank and pay of second lieutenant.  He took part in the siege of
Vicksburg, where he with Gen. Lyon's command made his escape.  He was
wounded at Guntown.  Lieut. Skinner participated, with his command, in
their numerous sanguinary battles, until their final surrender at
Columbus, Miss.  After the close of the war, he returned home and read law
and graduated in this branch of study from the Lexington law school in
1867, as an essential to a thorough business training.  He then went with
his father into the commission business in Eddyville, until the city of
Kuttawa was laid out, when he moved there and entered business under the
present firm name.  They carry a general stock and enjoy a flourishing
business.  June 23, 1869, Mr. Skinner married Bell Anderson, youngest
daughter of Gov. Charles Anderson, whose biography will be found
elsewhere.  This union has been blessed with four children:  Charline,
Eliza, Marion and Bartley.  Politically Mr. Skinner has always been a
Democrat, until 1884, when he supported the Republican candidate for
president, because of his protective tariff views, and will always
hereafter affiliate with the party of protection.  He and wife are members
of the Episcopal Church. 

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TN

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