Background
He was born on August 4, 1844 on a farm in Union Square, Oswego County, New York, United States, the son of Avery and Charlotte Prior (Stebbins) Skinner.
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Charles Rufus Skinner
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Education
He was educated in the district school and at Mexico Academy and Clinton Liberal Institute, both in Oswego County.
Career
He went to New York City in 1867 and spent three years there in business. From 1870 to 1874 he was city editor and manager of the Daily Times, Watertown, New York.
In 1876 he published Watertown, New York, A History of Its Settlement and Progress. He served on the Watertown board of education, 1875-84. A member of the state legislature from 1877 to 1881, he was chairman of the committee on railroads and advocated a five-cent fare on the New York elevated railway.
In 1881 he was elected as representative to Congress, succeeding Warner Miller, who had resigned in order to fill the unfinished term of Thomas Collier Platt; he was reelected and served until 1885.
After another year of editorial work, he became deputy state superintendent of public instruction in 1886, supervisor of teachers' institutes and teachers' training classes in 1892, and state superintendent of public instruction in 1895. During these years he compiled and edited a teachers' manual, books on school libraries and school architecture, an Arbor Day Manual (1890), and a Manual of Patriotism (1900). He also compiled The Bright Side (copyright 1909), a scrapbook of quotations. He was president of the National Education Association, 1896-97.
In 1904, when the department of public instruction was merged with the state board of regents through legislation that Skinner himself sponsored, his position ceased to exist. From 1906 to 1911 he was assistant appraiser of merchandise for the port of New York.
He was librarian of the state assembly, 1913-14, and in 1915 was given the newly created post of legislative librarian.
On October 31, 1925 he reached the legal retiring age. Not quite three years later he died while he was visiting his son in Pelham Manor, New York.
Achievements
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In Congress his chief interest was in postal matters, Charles Rufus Skinner originated and secured the passage of a bill providing for special delivery letters. Under him as a chief librarian, the legislative library became a quick reference library in which everything was arranged alphabetically, apple orchard cultivation and arbitration in labor disputes following each other in the same section Skinner also was the author and editior of the following books: an Arbor Day Manual (1890), and a Manual of Patriotism (1900), The Bright Side (1909). Skinner was a witness when after the President's speech, Leon Czolgosz approached the President, and shot him twice.
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The Bright Side: Little Excursions Into the Field of Optimism
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Watertown, N.Y. a History of Its Settlement and Progress, with a Description of Its Commercial Advantages, as a Manufacturing Point ..
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Arbor Day Manual. an Aid in Preparing Programs for Arobr Day Exercises. Containing Choice Selections on Trees, Forests, Flowers, and Kindred Subjects; Arbor Day Music, Specimen Programs, Etc
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The Public School. History of Common School Education in New York from 1633 to 1904
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The Bright Side: Little Excursions Into the Field of Optimism
Views
To the end of his life he believed that the state should concentrate its educational efforts on the elementary schools, leaving the high schools and colleges to private enterprise and endowment.
Personality
He was tall, handsome, and commanding
Connections
He married, October 16, 1873, Elizabeth Baldwin of Watertown, daughter of David W. and Laura (Freeman) Baldwin. He was survived by three sons and a daughter.
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June 30, 1928 (aged 83) -
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Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, New York, United States -
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Political Party
Republican