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Continued: Mary Jane Skinner graduated from Woodward High School. She became organist of Pilgrim Church. She was married by its minister, Rev Hugh Smythe. She moved to Cleveland in 1875. She was active in connection with operating a home for unfortunate girls, as Treasurer, also with Bethlehem Mission, conducting services for Bohemians, as Treasurer. She moved to Denver, with he children in July 1892. She was a charter member of New Century and Fourth Avenue (literary) Clubs. She was Treasurer and member of Board of Directors of Young Women's Christian Association many years. She was on the Board of the Neighborhood House Association (caring for children of day-working mothers). She was first Treasurer and then President of the Old Ladies' Home for seven years. She "acted as counsellor to associates whom she met, regardless of their station, and therfore had friends in every walk of life", "who were attracted by her lovable personality, her sympathetic nature and her many accomplishments." In accord with the preceding quotes, it seems certain to Lewis Bailey Skinner that those who knew his mother will agree that she possessed outstandingly those qualities, rare among women, of being uanaffectedly so judicially-minded and so possessed of executive ability that she was effective in disposing of the troubles of individuals and organizations seeking her out incessantly. Always a student, she kept herself posted on important current features, instead of wasting time on the trivialities so many women fancy.
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