This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SKINNER, NEWELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACE/147 Message Board Post: Looking for information of descendants of William SKINNER and Sally NEWELL known children: Martha, b. 1854, Eva, b. 1861, Kate, b. 1865 Skinner removed to Minnesota, became man of prominence and was several times elected to the State Legislature. Source: History of Sheshequin, PA. He resided in the city of New Ulm in Brown County, MN. He represented district 37 in the House of Representatives during the 1876 legislative session and the 1877 legislative session. Biographical information we have on him is from the 1893 Legislative Manual. It says: "William SKINNER (Democrat) resides in Milford township, Brown County, engaged in farming; he is now sixty-three years old; was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and educated in the common schools at his native county; settled in Minnesota in 1856; took part in the battle at New Ulm, August, 1862; has held various town and county offices; he is married." BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, New Ulm, MN [email protected]