Ninth Generation

5862. David Bishop Skillman was born on 24 March 1887 at Parsonage, Tabor Church in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. He received a Law degree on 18 June 1913 at Lafayette College in Easton, Northampton, PA. His publications include "The biography of a college: being the history of the first century of the life of Lafayette College published by at Lafayette College in Easton, Northampton, PA in 1932. In 1940 he was a lawyer in private practice in Easton, Northampton, PA. His publications include "Old Northampton County" published by at Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society in Easton, Northampton, PA in 1952. Paper read before the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, Oct 11, 1952, in observance of the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of the county. His publications include Whence came our early place-names? published by at Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society in Easton, Northampton, PA in 1960. David died on 22 February 1965 at the age of 77 in Easton, Northampton, PA. He was buried at Family plot, West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala-Cynwyd, Montgomery, PA. He had Social Security Number 204-09-8226. David was named after David Bishop, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Easton, PA in Easton, Northampton, PA. Skillman Library at Lafayette College, Easton, PA is named for David, an Easton attorney who served as secretary of the Lafayette Board of Trustees from 1915 until his retirement in 1957. Also served as assistant to the President and college counsel. The original nucleus of the Lafayette Library collection was the library of the Rev. David Bishop, pastor of the First Presbyterian Ch. of Easton, for whom David was named.

Read law, the old-fashioned way, passed the State Board exams in July, 1916, admitted to the bar of Northampton Co., Pa. on Oct. 2, 1916. His admission to the Appellate and Federal courts followed from time to time.

JANUARY 24, 2014
National Honor for Skillman: Tops Among College Libraries
Skillman Library has received the 2014 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).  The award highlights the library’s commitment to digital scholarship, its pioneering of new models for collaborative content acquisition, and the impact of its Information Literacy and Special Collections programs on student learning. Receiving this award is a national tribute to the library and its staff for outstanding services, programs, and leadership.

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“Lafayette College seeks to be a model for other colleges and has been in the forefront on getting grants and experimenting with digital scholarship in the liberal arts setting,” says Joyce Ogburn, chair of the 2014 Excellence in Academic Libraries Committee. “The library implemented new models of acquisitions for journals by combining strategic cancellations with article by article purchase. They led the way for other liberal arts colleges by developing consortial approaches to patron-driven acquisitions for ebooks, joining Hathi Trust and implementing the Ithaka faculty survey on their campus.”
Lafayette receives $700,000 Mellon grant to support digital humanities
Sponsored by ACRL and YBP Library Services, the annual awards recognize the staffs of a college, university, and community college library for programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational mission of the institution. Lafayette, the winner in the college division, will receive $3,000 and a plaque, which will be presented at a future award ceremony on campus.
“We are greatly honored to be selected by our peers to receive this award, which recognizes not only our library’s innovative work on behalf of Lafayette College but also our strategic collaboration with other colleges and universities,” says Neil McElroy, dean of libraries. “While the award highlights our programmatic initiatives and technological innovations, we are mindful that our success has been enabled by those relationships of trust and reciprocity that we’ve been privileged to build with the Lafayette community and colleagues at other institutions over many years. We are deeply pleased and grateful.”
The library previously received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award for Interior Architecture, AIA/ALA Library Building Award, and the Boston Society of Architects’ Honor Award for Design Excellence and Higher Education Facilities Design Award.

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David Bishop Skillman and Frances C. Bouchette were married on 3 February 1934 at her sister's home in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH. They appeared in the census in 1940 at 640 West Lafayette St. in Easton, Northampton, PA. Frances C. Bouchette, daughter of Henri Bouchette and Marie Kuhn, was born on 2 August 1901 in New York. She died on 29 January 1991 at the age of 89 in Collier, FL. She was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala-Cynwyd, Montgomery, PA. Frances had Social Security Number 171-34-7459.

David Bishop Skillman-752 and Frances C. Bouchette-753 had the following children: