Avery Skinner (June 9, 1796 – November 24, 1876) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was born on June 9, 1796, in Westmoreland,

Cheshire County, New Hampshire Cheshire County is a County (United States), county in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 76,458. Its county seat is the city of Keene, New Hampshire, ...

, the son of Timothy Skinner and Ruth (Warner) Skinner. In 1816, he removed to

Watertown, New York Watertown is a city in, and the county seat of, Jefferson County, New York, United States. It is approximately south of the Thousand Islands, along the Black River about east of where it flows into Lake Ontario. The city is bordered by th ...

. On June 9, 1822, he married Elizabeth Lathrop Huntington (1802–1833), and they had four children. In 1823, the family moved to a place which Skinner named Union Square (now a hamlet called Maple View), in the town of Mexico. Skinner built, and then kept, an inn at Union Square. From 1826 to 1837, he was Treasurer of Oswego County. From 1828 to 1839, he was an associate judge of the Oswego County Court. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co.) in

1832 Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white plant ...

and 1833. He was Postmaster of Union Square from 1833 until his death, with a short interruption of three months. On September 1, 1834, he married Charlotte Prior Stebbins (1802–1888), and they had five children, among them Congressman Charles R. Skinner (1844–1928). Avery Skinner was a member of the New York State Senate (5th D.) from 1838 to 1841, sitting in the 61st, 62nd, 63rd and

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s. He died on November 24, 1876, in

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, Oswego County, New York; and was buried at the Maple View Cemetery there. State Senator

Alanson Skinner Alanson Skinner (May 21, 1794 in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire – June 7, 1876 in Brownville, Jefferson County, New York) was an American manufacturer and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Timothy Skinner and Rut ...

(1794–1876) was his brother.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 132f, 145, 212, 214 and 304; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Skinner, Avery 1796 births 1876 deaths Democratic Party New York (state) state senators People from Westmoreland, New Hampshire Politicians from Watertown, New York Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly New York (state) postmasters 19th-century American politicians