Seventh Generation


1837. George Robertson Skillman was born on 1 January 1837 in Maryland. His publications include a book published by in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD in 1885. A directory of the biscuit and cracker bakers of the United States and the dominion of Canada : arranged by state, cities, and towns, also alphabetically : together with a directory of reliable business houses who are manufacturers of and dealers in materials of all kinds used in common by all biscuit and cracker bakers : to which is added a list of prominent millers in the United States ... : together with much other useful information : compiled and published for the use of the trade
He died on 19 October 1919 at the age of 82 in Walbrook, Baltimore, MD. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, George H. MacCubbin, 3806 Clifton, Walbrook.

Find-a-Grave: Gravestone: "He fell asleep on Earth to awake in eternity." (no picture) Date of death: Oct. 18, 1918.

GED from Barbara Shekore puts death at Feb. 1904. He was buried on 20 October 1919 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. George was a Cracker baker at Skillman Bread and Pie Co., 204 N. Greene St. in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. Invented first cracker machine used in U.S. and was originator of the Cream bar and the Jersey milk cracker. His SOA Number is 136 i. Owner of Skillman Bread and Pie Co., Baltimore, MD

The Baltimore Sentinel, 22 Dec. 1885
Sunday afternoon a fire destroyed the three upper floors of George R. Skillman's cracker bakery, in Baltimore. The damage to the building is estimated at $10,000 and to stock and machinery $10,000 to $15,000.

Pete Skillman's web site about him:

http://peteskillman.com/2014/02/george-r-cracker-baker-skillman/

George Robertson Skillman and Mary Elizabeth Pierce were married on 22 April 1857 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. Find-a-Grave has year of marriage as 1858. They appeared in the census in 1860 at Baltimore Ward 4 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. They appeared in the census in 1900 at 1408 Myrtle Ave., Baltimore Ward 15 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. The 1900 Census lists daughters Mary and Sarah and son Wilbur, son-in-law George MacCubbin, grandchildren Mary and Amanda MacCubbin and Mary, Anna and George Buck living with them. Also servants Stella E. Wirts, nurse, white, 14, Annie Larkins, cook, black, 36 and Sunie M.Robinson, waitress, black, 21. George and Mary lived at Walbrook section in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. Mary Elizabeth Pierce was born on 18 April 1838 in Maryland. She died on 20 February 1904 at the age of 65. She was buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD.

George Robertson Skillman-1336 and Mary Elizabeth Pierce-1342 had the following children:

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George R. Skillman was born about January 1860 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. Find-a-Grave tombstone picture looks like born Jan, 1860. He died on 10 July 1880 at the age of 20 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. He was buried on 11 July 1880 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Lot R- 22, #2 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. "He passed away in the full hope of a blessed immortality."

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Virginia Beatty "Jennie" Skillman-1344.

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William Pierce Skillman was born in 1863. He died on 19 June 1864 at the age of 1. He was buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD.

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George Robertson Skillman Jr. was born on 19 June 1864 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. He died on 3 September 1886 at the age of 22 in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD.

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Robert Gilbert Skillman-1346.

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Mary Elizabeth Skillman-1347.

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Sarah Ann Skillman-1348.

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Dr. Wilbur Francis Skillman-1349.