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Skinner miracle : a compilation of family history, photographs, and memorabilia of the descendents of Richard Green SkinnerEntry/Object ID
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xvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Skinner miracle : a compilation of family history, photographs, and memorabilia of the descendants of Richard Green Skinner by John H. Skinner.
"The family patriarch, Richard Green Skinner, father of seven boys, came to Jacksonville in the fall of 1899 in search of pine trees, the essential raw materials for his naval stores business. Though he had less than a $1,000 in his pocket, he was able to find enough backing to acquire an empire of pine trees south and east of the St. Johns River. And when he and his wife both died unexpectedly, a couple of weeks apart in 1905 and 1906, his seven sons were able to hang onto the family business and, more importantly, the family land, though Bright, the oldest, was only 24, and four of the brothers were still in school."
Selected contents: Great fire of 1901 -- Skinner Brothers' Realty Company -- Skinners' Dairy.
"That was a perfect miracle for that group of boys to take over a going business and really make a big success out of it as they did," Bryant Skinner said at the 1985 Thanksgiving gathering.
"John H. Skinner, a circuit judge in Duval County, used his cousin Bryant's quote as the epigraph for the privately published book, The Skinner Miracle, a compilation of family recollections that was first published in 1990.Collection
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Skinner family., Skinner, Richard Green -- 1886-1960., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Social life and customs.Publication Details
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Skinner, John H. (John Hillis) 1952-Publisher
John Hillis SkinnerPlace Published
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[Jacksonville, FL]Call No.
CT 275 .S5 1990