The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 402

ANDREW MILTON SKINNER.

Andrew Milton Skinner, who since 1908 has owned and occupied a farm one mile
north of Outlook, now has seventy-five acres of good land. He has owned and sold
other farms in this district, having for a number of years been closely
identified with its agricultural development. He was born in Osage county,
Kansas, June 13, 1873, a son of Andrew J. and Mary Jane (Payton) Skinner, who
were natives of Ohio and from that state removed to Indiana, and later to
Kansas, purchasing land upon which Mr. Skinner carried on farming to the time of
his death.

Andrew M. Skinner acquired a public school education and at the age of
seventeen years started out in the business world on his own account. He worked
for wages and after a time went to Kansas City, where he lived for two years.
Later he engaged in farming for a brief period in Kansas and upon his removal to
the northwest made his way to Black Diamond, Washington, where he worked in the
mines for two and a half years. While in Kansas he had suffered losses and was
forced to make a new start in the northwest, his wife assisting by teaching
music. They saved twenty-five hundred dollars and, wisely feeling that life
means more than the accumulation of money, they went to St. Louis to see the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, gaining much of educational value and pleasure
from the trip. In the spring of 1905 Mr. Skinner purchased forty acres of land a
mile north and west of Outlook. He sold the property in 1906 and invested in
twenty-five acres nearby. This he later sold and his next purchase made him
owner of sixty acres in the same locality, but later he disposed of that tract
and in 1908 purchased his present farm a mile north of Outlook. He has added to
this since that time and now has seventy-five acres of good land, constituting
an excellent ranch property of the district, upon which he successfully raises
hay, corn and potatoes. He also has fine registered Percheron and Shire horses
and is engaged quite extensively in the breeding and raising of horses.

On the 11th of October, 1900, Mr. Skinner was married to Miss Fannie Roady, who
was born in Scranton, Kansas, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Catherine
(Dowling) Roady, who were born in Jerseyville, Illinois, and became pioneer
residents of Kansas, where they settled in 1875. In 1908 they came to the
Yakima valley and purchased a ranch near Outlook, since which time the father
has successfully carried on agricultural interests there. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner
have become parents of three children: Mabel, Margaret and Hazel May.

In politics Mr. Skinner is a republican but has never been an office seeker. He
has made good use of his time, talents and opportunities and as the years have
passed he has won that prosperity which is the direct result of industry well
guided and of unquestioned business integrity.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.