Skiddy, William
wheelwright, manufacturer, banker, was born in 1845, in New York city. He went to Russell's Military school in New Haven, Conn.; and at the breaking out of the war was detailed to assist in drilling three months' volunteers. In 1865 he graduated from Yale college. He subsequently started in business, became interested in mining, and in 1875 became connected with The Stamford Manufacturing company, one of the oldest concerns in the United States, being established in 1796, and of which corporation he is president. He is a director in several banks, and active in various organizations connected with Yale university. He was commissary-general of the state of Connecticut at one time; was a delegate to the national democratic conventions of 1884 and 1892; and has held various positions of honor in Stamford, Conn. He is a prominent member of the protestant episcopal church; and has been a delegate to the general conventions of that church held at Chicago, New York, Baltimore and Minneapolis.
SKILTÓN, JULIUS AUGUSTUS, physician, surgeon, author, was born June 29, 1833, in Troy, N. Y. He served in New York city during the draft riots, and was medical director of cavalry department of the southwest in 1864-65. In 1869 he was appointed United States consul at the city of Mexico, and in 1872 he was promoted to be consul-general, holding the office until 1878. Besides his annual reports he has published Mining Districts of Parhuca, Real del Monte, El Chico, and Star Rosa, State of Hidalgo, Republic of Mexico.
SKINNER, CHARLES MONTGOMERY, journalist, author, was born in 1852 in New York. He is a journalist of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle; and the author of Villon the Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land; and Nature in a City Yard.