Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Skiff, Perrin A. January 4, 1826 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 November 27, 2008, 9:09 am Author: Hardin & Willard Skiff, Perrin A., M.D., Frankfort, was born in West Schuyler January 4, 1826, he being one of three children of Hiram and Elizabeth J. (Akins) Skiff. He was married in January, 1852, to Marietta Valentine of East Schuyler, daughter of Sidney S. and Anna E. Valentine. They have three children, Anna M. (Mrs. J. F. Rogers), May E. (Mrs. Alfred Bayless), and Etta C. (Mrs. S. S. Richards). Dr. Skiff was educated at Clinton Freewill Institute and at Whitestown; he studied medicine with Drs. Budlong & Parkhurst two years, and one year with Dr. Henderson of Whitestown, took three courses at Albany Medical College, graduating in 1851. He then settled in Frankfort, where he has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession. Dr. Skiff has always been interested in the welfare of the town, having acted as supervisor three terms, president of Herkimer Medical Society one term and for the past seven years has been surgeon of the West Shore Railroad. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/skiff670gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb