Marriage Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts William Skinner married Sarah Elizabeth Allen daughter of Joseph Allen Children Skinner was a director of the Silk Association of America, director of the Silk Manufacturers' Association, and president of the Holyoke Manufacturers' Association.
Operations ceased, and the firm was bought by Indian Head Mills, incorporated in 1961. By 1956 the Skinner mills has ceased manufacturing silk, and the mills were used to house smaller firms. Hubbard, William Skinner II, and George Gibson. When Joseph Skinner died in 1946 and William in 1947, the firm’s management was continued by four grandsons of William Skinner: Stewart Kilborne, William H. The section of Mill River along which William Skinner settled his new Unquomonk Silk Mills became known as Skinnerville.īy 1883 William Skinner’s two sons, William and Joseph, joined him in the family firm, which was renamed William Skinner and Sons. In 1843, he came at age 19 to supervise operations at the Valentine Dye Works in Northampton, in western Massachusetts. William Skinner’s mother was a descendent of Huguenot refugees. His father, John Skinner was a London silk dyer. He knew the silk business very well as it was a family trade for which he had been meant from boyhood. Biography Birth London, London, England Baptism Spitalfields Christ Church With St Mary and St Stephen, Middlesex, England Immigration 1843 Occupation William Skinner was an extremely successful businessman, a tireless and dynamic manager of money, time, and opportunity.
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