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Reminiscences.

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Date Issued:
1908
Abstract/Description:
Skinner, born in New York, was employed in the lumbering industry in Michigan, Wisconsin and California, and ran a sawmill in Navada. In 1874, he inspected pine forests in Bagdad, Floridatown, and Ferry Pass, Florida. Between 1874 and 1905, he built a lumbering empire of over 100,000 acres of pinelands in Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties. This autobiography provides an eyewitness account of lumbering in West Florida and the yellow fever epidemics between 1874 and 1905.
Title: Reminiscences.
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Name(s): Skinner, Emory Fiske, b. 1833
PALMM (Project)
Type of Resource: text
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1908
Publisher: Vestal Printing Co.
Place of Publication: Chicago
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: xi, 358 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Language(s): eng
Abstract/Description: Skinner, born in New York, was employed in the lumbering industry in Michigan, Wisconsin and California, and ran a sawmill in Navada. In 1874, he inspected pine forests in Bagdad, Floridatown, and Ferry Pass, Florida. Between 1874 and 1905, he built a lumbering empire of over 100,000 acres of pinelands in Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties. This autobiography provides an eyewitness account of lumbering in West Florida and the yellow fever epidemics between 1874 and 1905.
Identifier: AAA1502QF00012/19/200007/18/200317322BnamIa D0QF (FCLAZ), FCLA url 20010709 (snx), FHP C WF 2000-12-19 (DNX), WF00000020 (IID), 2586503 (digitool), uwf:1271 (fedora)
Note(s): by Emory Fiske Skinner.
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2000. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced by the University of West Florida from a book in the Main Library at the University of West Florida, Pensacola.
Subject(s): Skinner, Emory Fiske, b. 1833
Biography
History
Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913 -- Business, Agriculture, and Tourism, 1878-1897
Library Classification: CT275.S5222 A3
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/WF00000020.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/WF00000020.jpg
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF
Other Format:
(OCoLC)1542933
Is Part of Series: Florida heritage collection.