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Calvin Skinner, born in Royalton, Vt., May 29, 1818, located in Malone in 1842 for the practice of his profession
as a physician. With a cheery manner, a sympathetic temperament, a skill to alleviate suffering, and an energy,
courage and character that made him a high class citizen, Dr. Skinner became one of the best known and most highly
regarded residents of the county. In addition to his active professional work, covering a period of more than forty
years, he was conspicuous in politics and in forwarding local public undertakings. He was one of eleven men to
organize the Republican party in Franklin county in 1855, was a delegate to the national convention that nominated
Abraham Lincoln in 1860, was always a worker in campaigns, and held the office of postmaster of Malone for fourteen
years. In 1862 he went to Virginia as a volunteer surgeon for a short time, and later became the regularly commissioned
surgeon of the 106th regiment. Dr. Skinner was one of the incorporators of the Malone Water Works Company in 1857,
was one of the founders and for sears a trustee of the Northern New York Institution for Deaf Mutes, and was identified,
from time to time with other home enterprises of value and importance to the town. For ten years preceding his
death he was confined to his home by a spinal trouble traceable to his army service. He died September 24, 1903,
almost, if not quite, the last of the generation next after the pioneers who did so much to give tone and character
to Malone, and make it a town worth living in.
Also see William C. Skinner.
From:
Historical Sketches of Franklin County
and its several towns.
By: Frederick J. Seaver Malone, New York.
J. B. Lyon Company, Printers Albany, NY 1918.
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