Ninth Generation

5111. Isaac Newton Skillman was born on 28 October 1889 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH. In 1929 he was a President, O&S Bearing Co., in Detroit, Wayne, MI. He lived 19212 Canterbury Rd. in Detroit, Wayne, MI in 1929. Isaac lived in Golden Beach, Miami-Dade, FL in February 1966. He died on 4 February 1966 at the age of 76 in Miami, Dade, FL. He had Social Security Number 378-07-2812. Isaac was an executive at Parke Davis Pharm. in Detroit, Wayne, MI. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Wayne, MI. Source: Encyclopedia of Biography, pub. after 1966, pg. 647. One Samuel skipped in lineage. Two incorrect names.

From Charles Clyde Skillman, email 12/28/2014:

Subject: Isaac Newton Skillman
he was the son of Harry Skillman of Lockland Ohio born in Lockland Oct 28, 1889.  His father was a vice -president and  a large stockholder in the Pharmaceutical firm of Parke-Davis.  Newton was a self-educated engineer.  In the early 1920's he invented an oil-less bushing and bearing.  It required no lubrication which made it ideal for use as spring shackles, clutch and brake pedal connections and other places in automobiles where lubrication was difficult, if not impossible.  To produce his bushing and bearing he established the O and S Bearing Company in Detroit, a company which enjoyed great success, with its product being used not only in practically all automobiles but in high speed machinery as well.  In his career he also invented numerous other devices and items.  Considered one of Detroit's most capable engineers, Mr. Skillman knew intimately his colleagues in the motor car industry and the heads of most of the automobile manufactures in the country.  He was also one of the early aviation enthusiasts and at one time owned and operated his own plane and he was a member of famous flight outfit of which Eddie Rickenbacker was the surviving member.  He was assistant on a personal basis to Bill Stout, the head of the aviation department of the Ford Motor Company.  He worked on development of the Ford Tri-Motor airplane and he piloted the first all metal plane.                

He was the Skillman cousin who fixed the new hearse that Vorhis Funeral Home had gotten in 1915 called the Winston.  The hearse broke down taking his uncle, Larkin B. Cavett, to Oak Hill Cemetery in Glendale.  The hearse broke down in front of what later was the Woodlawn Drive-in theater on Springfield Pike in Woodlawn.  When the hearse broke down the Vorhis people had no idea what to do about the hearse and Newton as he went by got out of the funeral procession and got under the hood of the hearse and tinkered around and got the hearse going again so they could resume taking Larkin B. Cavett to his final resting place.  This hearse detail was told to me by Lloyd B. Cavett the son of Larkin.  This information was supplied to me by another Skillman descendant that he found in the Encyclopedia of Biography pages 647 and 648 with a picture of Newton Skillman also in that article but no page number. 

One patent for the bearing is 2,600,079, 6/10/1952. It references 5 earlier patent by Skillman. http://www.google.com/patents/US2600079

Isaac Newton Skillman and Irene Mercedes Walker were married on 29 June 1912 in Detroit, Wayne, MI. They appeared in the census in 1920 at ED #714 in Wayne, MI. Irene Mercedes Walker, daughter of John Walker and Isabella Mackay Patton, was born on 16 December 1892 in Detroit, Wayne, MI. She died on 26 January 1957 at the age of 64 in Miami, Dade, FL. She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Wayne, MI.

Isaac Newton Skillman-6486 and Irene Mercedes Walker-6487 had the following children:

Ardinelle B. Routh (private).