Bio: Skinner, William H. (1881)
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Surnames: Skinner, Jones

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 571

WILLIAM H. SKINNER, head sawyer in the Eau Pleine or Brickley saw-mill, Eau Pleine, was born in Big Flats, Steuben Co., N. Y., July 12, 1846. He came to Oshkosh in 1854, with his parents, and lived there twenty years. He began business for himself at the age of fifteen years, his first occupation being head sawyer. He went to Green Bay, and engaged in the same business, where he remained two years; then to Oconto, where he followed saw filing one year; from there he went to Shiocton, where he remained two years; then to Stevens Point, also for two years; from there he came to his present place of business in the Spring of 1881. He was married at Neenah, March 29, 1870 to Emma A. Jones, who was born in Neenah, July 24, 1849. They have four children — Eva M., Tina E., Carrie Z., and Grace M.