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Thomas Skidmore (ca. 1733-1807), born in Maryland, obtained a title to 400 acres of land (“by virtue of a settlement”) in the future Elkins area before 1778. This land, on the east side of the Tygart Valley River , was surveyed by John Poage in 1780 and included the land that is now most of downtown Elkins.
Title page of Thomas Skidmore's seminal 1829 book, The Rights of Man to Property! Thomas Skidmore (August 13, 1790 – August 7, 1832) was an American politician and radical political philosopher . Skidmore is best remembered as the co-founder and leader of the Working Men's Party in New York when it first emerged in the fall of 1829.
Thomas Elliott Skidmore (July 22, 1932, in Troy, Ohio – June 11, 2016) was an American historian and scholar who specialized in Brazilian history. [1] Biography
Stephen Benton Elkins (September 26, 1841 – January 4, 1911) was an American industrialist and politician. He served as the Secretary of War between 1891 and 1893. He served in the United States Congress as a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico and a Senator from West Virginia .
In 1897, a fire in the town did much damage to the early newspaper offices and other structures. Again, on August 7, 1974, The Inter-Mountain burned to the ground and everything was destroyed but a camera, a roll of film, and the newspaper personnel who escaped with their lives literally running from the fire.
Here follows a list of some notable people associated with Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the college. It includes graduates, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the college.
Thomas Elkins (1818 – August 10, 1900) [1] was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharmacist, and inventor. He lived in Albany, New York , for most of his life, but travelled during his service as the medical examiner of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts infantries and visited Liberia .
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