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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

MRS. HENRIETTA SKELTON, State Lecturer and Organizer of California for the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is a native of Germany. She was born at
Giessen, a daughter of Professor Heddrich, who was President of Heidelburg
University. At fifteen years of age she was bereft of her parents and came to
America, where she joined an uncle, Professor Karl Buff, a professor of Toronto
University, (Canada). In 1869, being then seventeen years of age, she married
Mr. Murray Skelton, a native of Plymouth, England, who was at that time
Superintendent of the Northern railway of Canada. Mr. Skelton died in 1871, and
in 1883 she lost her only son, Louis G.

  Upon the death of her husband Mrs. Skelton threw herself into the temperance
work, with which she has since been identified. She established the first German
temperance paper in the United States, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880, which she
christened the Bahnbrecher (Roadbreaker) and which she edited for two years and
then gave it to the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Skelton
then went into the lecture field, in which line of temperance work she has since
labored.

  She came to the Pacific coast in 1883, and did the first practical temperance
work in southern California, establishing many of the live-working unions in
that part of the State. Since that time she has traveled in twenty-eight States
and Territories of the Union. She spent two years, 1886 and '87, as Lecturer and
President of Idaho, and established the work there. Later she resumed the work
in California, where her field of labor now is.

  Mrs. Skelton at the National Convention in Denver, 1892, was elected a member
of the National Staff of Lecturers and Organizers, and her field of work greatly
extended.

  Mrs. Skelton is a lady of great force of character and fine intellectual
attainments. She has found time to write several instructive books, and is the
author of "The Christmas Tree," a character story of home life in the
Fatherland, with the scenes laid at Giessen, her native home. Another one of her
productions is, "The Man Trap," a temperance story; and the third is entitled,
"A Fatal Inheritance." She will soon issue from the press her most recent work,
"Grace Morton."

  Mrs. Skelton is thoroughly imbued with the subject of her life work,
temperance. She is entertaining on the platform, and a lady of great executive
ability. Her home is at Pacific Grove and her personal friends, numbered by the
thousands, are scattered across the continent.

  Mrs. Skelton has one grandson, Erdly, to whose future she is much devoted.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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