Daniel SKINNER

Father: Elijah SKINNER

Family 1: Sarah P STRATTON
  1. Sarah Eliza SKINNER
  2. Lucien C SKINNER 
                                                _Joseph SKINNER _
                   _Jedediah Engerson SKINNER _|
                  |                            |_Ruth STRONG ____
 _Elijah SKINNER _|
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!.....E 95.0501.07, 08 SKU 12(2):44 Esley, Nancy SKINNER STREET Vignettes of Sandwich by: Clarence A. McCarthy Three houses west of Elijahıs was the home of his son Daniel (1825-1898). When Daniel married Sarah Stratton in 1845, his father set him up in a tin shop in a building next to the Skinner home From one of his employees, Daniel learned the shoe business and by the time he was 32 he had fifteen people manufacturing shoes in the shop next door to his fatherıs place. This business failed in the devastating Panic of 1857. Daniel went to Manchester to work in a tin shop. A few years later he was back in Sandwich and had another shoe business in Skinner Hall - also known at the Grand Army Hall - across the street from the Methodist Church. Daniel inherited his fatherıs inventive imagination. While he was in Manchester he saw a pie lifter, devised a better one, patented it, and sold thousands of them. He designed a mowing machine and, long before the cog railroad, he conceived a plan for a mountain railroad, but he did not develop either because of limited capital. In 1883 he patented a parcel transmitter, the precursor of the Skinner cash transmitter. This was a metal basket where the salesclerk placed a sales slip and the customerıs money. The clerk pulled a cord that shot the basket up a track to a cable near the ceiling where a strong spring catapulted it along the cable to the cashierıs office, usually on a balcony. The cashier reversed the process to return the change and a receipt. These transmitters were around into the 1920s, even after pneumatic tubes had also come into use, until the cash register became universal. In 1887 he sold his interest to the Lamar Storeservice Company for enough to live comfortably the rest of his life.

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