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Skinner, Charles Rufus

journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1844, in Union Square, N. Y.

He was a member of the board of education of Watertown, N. Y., from 1875 to 1883; and was a member of the state house of representatives from 1877 to 1881. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. SKINNER, FREDERICK GUSTAVUS, soldier, journalist, author, was born March 11, 1814, in Annapolis, Md. He joined the staff of the Turf, Field and Farm in New York, and, as field editor of that journal, was instrumental in bringing about the first field trial, the first bench-show of dogs, and the first international gun-trial that was ever held in the United States.