Charles Nelson Skinner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
About Charles Nelson Skinner
- Charles Nelson Skinner (March 12, 1833 – September 22, 1910) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Samuel and Phoebe S.
- (Golding) Skinner, Skinner was educated at the public and Grammar schools of Saint John.
- After leaving school, he prepared for the legal profession.
- He studied law in the office of C.
- W.
- Stockton, and was admitted to the Bar, Trinity term, 1860.
- He commenced to practice his profession in partnership with George G.
- Gilbert, under the firm name of Gilbert & Skinner.
- This partnership lasted about four years, when he began practice in his own name, and so continued until January 1894, when he took his two sons into partnership, Charles S.
- and Sherwood Skinner, the firm name being C.
- N.
- Skinner & Sons. He was a member of the New Brunswick Legislature from 1862 to 1868 and was Solicitor General from 1865 to 1868.
- From 1868 to 1885, he was a judge of probate.
- In 1887, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the City and County of St.
- John.
- He was also re-elected for the same constituency in 1891, but resigned his seat in 1892 when he was re-appointed a judge. He was a member of the Orange Order and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
- He was married to Eliza J.
- McLaughlin and had five sons and three daughters.
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