Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Skinner, John W. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Skinner, John W., is a farmer in Columbia, and a son of Gersham Skinner, also 
born here. He was a son of John Skinner, of this town, and his father was 
Gersham, a soldier of the Revolution. He was attacked by the Indians, 
receiving a number of wounds. He hid under the flume and was there while the 
Indians burned the mill. John W. married Sarah J. Skinner, who died in 
February, 1872.   He married second Mary T. Casler, and they had three 
children : Leon C, Jacob W. and Ora B.  Gersham Skinner married Jane E. 
Dygert, and they had six children: Alary E., Carmi M., Cornelia C. John W., 
Lucien F. and Lucius F.  Mary T. Skinner is a daughter of Jacob F. Casler, 
born in Little Falls, and is still living in this town. He was a son of 
Frederick Casler, a native of this county, born the second year of the 
Revolution, in a house that was afterward a fort.

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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.

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