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He was born on March 7, 1791 at Harvey's Neck, North Carolina, United States. seventh of the thirteen children of Joshua and Martha Ann Skinner.
The mother, reared an Episcopalian, became a member of the Baptist Church, and her husband, a Quaker, followed her into that communion. Their dwelling served as the neighborhood schoolhouse, the elder Skinner employing the schoolmaster.
Thomas received his early education; later, he attended two other schools, and eventually enrolled as a student at Edenton Academy. Entering the College of New Jersey in 1807, he won distinction in mathematics, and was graduated in 1809.
He studied theology at Princeton, New Jersey, under President Samuel Stanhope Smith of the College of New Jersey; at Savannah, Georgia, under Dr. Henry Kollock; and at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in the home of Dr. John McDowell.
For a year and a half he read law in his brother's office, serving also as clerk of the superior court. About to be admitted to the bar, he decided in 1811, partly as a result of the death in a shipwreck of his youngest brother, John, to enter the Presbyterian ministry.
On June 10, 1813, he was ordained at Philadelphia and became co-pastor with Dr. Jacob J. Janeway of the Second Presbyterian Church. He served in this capacity until 1816, vigorously preaching New School theology.
Opposition developing, he resigned, and became pastor of the Fifth Church, to which small congregation on Locust Street about seventy members of the Second Church followed him. Seven years later a new edifice was dedicated at a more desirable location on Arch Street. Here his doctrinal sermons attracted crowded evening audiences. He remained with this congregation, except for a few months when he was in charge of the Pine Street Church, Boston, for nearly sixteen years.
After repeated invitations, in 1832 he accepted the professorship of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary. Here he labored arduously in the then new task of teaching homiletics. His love of active preaching, however, together with the fact that his health had become impaired, led him in 1835 to undertake the pastorate of the new Mercer Street Presbyterian Church, New York. Here he remained more than twelve years, a period in the church's history characterized by able preaching and religious revival. From the founding of Union Theological Seminary, in 1836, he was a director, and in 1848, when poor health compelled him to relinquish his pastorate, a parishioner endowed a chair of sacred rhetoric there, with special reference to its occupancy by Skinner.
In 1854 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly (New School). He had earlier published several books, of which Aids to Preaching and Hearing (1839) was perhaps the most notable, and during his years at Union he issued several others, among them Pastoral Theology (1853) and Homiletics (1854), both editions of Alexandre R. Vinet's works, prepared with much care and evidence of learning.
He died in 1871.
Thomas Harvey Skinner gave much aid in the work of establishing and stabilizing Union Theological Seminary in New York. During his career he did noteworthy work in systematizing the teaching of homiletics and in promoting broader theological views and closer interdenominational relations. He was the author of famous books Aids to Preaching and Hearing (1839), Pastoral Theology (1853), Discussions in Theology (1868).
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Personally he was a man of cultivation, sincerity, simplicity, and deep spirituality.
He was married and one of his children, Thomas Harvey Skinner (1820 - 92), was professor of theology at McCormick Seminary, Chicago.
