Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 21 Aug 2005

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P. W. SKILLMAN, farmer, P. O., Loveland, was born in the State of New Jersey, Feb. 25, 1831, and is a son of Abraham and Hannah Skillman, natives of the same State, who settled near Hopkinsville in 1836, and a year later in Maineville, near which he worked a farm and labored on a contract he had on the L. M. R. R. Mrs. Skillman died in 1840, when he returned to New Jersey where he died in 1854. Their children, six in number, settled in Ohio, in which they lived for a number of years, viz: Jacob, Andrew, Peter W., James, Perry, Hannah, who died near Maineville. Our subject returned to New Jersey with his father, and learned the plastering and brick laying trade. In 1852 he returned to Cincinnati, where he plied his trade, and did a regular contract business until 1862, when he went to Cleremont Co. Ohio, and soon after came to the place where he now resides. In 1857 he was married to Ruth A., daughter of Joseph Randabush, of Cleremont Co., who bore him six children, viz: Flora, Anna, Kate, Buela, Ella, and Abra. Mrs. Skillman died March 6, 1877, aged 44 years He was again married to Hannah, daughter of James Spence, Sept. 29, 1880. He is a member of the Emory Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, No. 558, having joined the order in 1857; is a Republican in politics, and has always voted with that party upon all questions at issue.