When Thomas C. Skinner was born on 11 March 1824, in Wayne Township, Allen, Indiana, United States, his father, John Skinner, was 26 and his mother, Malinda Griffin, was 21. He married Jane Byres on 20 May 1847, in Cass, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in La Grange, LaGrange Township, Cass, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 June 1907, in Silver Creek Township, Cass, Michigan, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Pokagon, Pokagon Township, Cass, Michigan, United States.
English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
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