Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield (Benjamin4, Jacob3,
Thomas2, Thomas1 ) was born 14 November 1855 in Brunswick, Maine; married, first, Mary Etta Hall, daughter of Alfred Hall and Esther Chapel Widger, on 19 September 1884 in Olympia, Washington; married, second, Sarah Stanwood Holman Minot, known as Sadie, daughter of John Bailey Holman and Elizabeth A. Chase, on 2 September 1926 in Brunswick, Maine, by the Rev. Andrew Young, Pastor, United Baptist Church of Topsham. Benjamin and Sadie Holman were married at the home of the bride's step-daughter Mary and her husband George Ridley. He died
6 July 1950 in Portland, Oregon, and is buried in Riverview
Cemetery there. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield worked for his father on Mere Point until he was 21, and then went to Boston and clerked at C.D.Cobb and Brothers, a large grocery store on Hanover and Union Streets. Al Mason, Dick Sealy and Bill Lee were also employed there. Late in 1877, or early in 1878, Al Mason went to Oregon on the maiden voyage of the steamer Oregon, which had been built in
Philadelphia for the San Francisco-to-Portland run. B.F. Skolfield with Dick Sealy, and Bill and Joe Lee left Boston by train for San Francisco on 18 March 1879. B.F. Skolfield and Dick Sealy arrived in Portland on the steamer Oregon on 1 April 1879. The Lees arrived later on the steamer Republic, but they did not remain long in the west. Mr. Skolfield worked until fall at the long-since burned Richmond House at Second and Couch Streets, and then for O.F. Siles and Company grocery on First and Yamhill Streets. Al Mason and Dick Sealy, who were working there, later purchased the grocery under the name of
Sealy Mason and Company, and Frank and John Sealy soon succeeded Dick Sealy in the firm. For several years, including 1886, Mr. Skolfield was with the Portland Post Office, first as a railway mail clerk and then as a delivery clerk, using his own horse and buggy to deliver mail in the northwest section of Portland. He then returned to the grocery business until 1904 when he
became business manager and bookkeeper of the North Pacific
Sanatorium for Doctor R. C. Coffey. In 1906 he and his older son, Frank Hall Skolfield, went into the contracting business and later started the Skolfield Fuel Company and
the Oregon Coal Company which they still owned and managed in 1946. On a trip to his old home in Maine in 1926 he married his boyhood sweetheart, Mrs. Sarah (Sadie) Holman Minot as his second wife. Until gas rationing began during the Second World War, he spent his summer vacations at his cottage on the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound and enjoyed fishing from a motor boat which he built when he was past eighty. He was always active, going to work daily,
and spent his spare time in his vegetable and flower gardens until January 1950. The following is a letter written to Stanton Storer Skolfield by Esther Skolfield Schmidt from San Mateo, California, 23 July 1950: B.F. Skolfield Dear Cousin Stanton: Dad passed away on July 6,1950 about 11:40 P.M. The doctor called it myocardial degeneration and said death was caused by another heart attack. Dad had been ill since January 17th when he had a severe pain between his shoulders near the back of his
neck. I arrived Jan. 28 and after complications including
severe pains in his knees and muscle spasms in his legs
from arthritis, he got well enough to sit up in a chair and
to walk a few steps daily. Then a clot in the large vein behind his right knee caused the leg to swell and kept him in bed for 6 weeks. Meanwhile we moved him downstairs and every improvement didn't last long. He was so patient, so eager to get well that he cooperated beautifully and was most grateful for all we did. I was glad I was able to be with him and strong enough to take care of him - 24 hour nursing duty - but we had help with the housework all but 3 wks. and a fine, very kind doctor. Saturday before he
passed away, Dad awoke on a golden sunny morning thinking he was in Heaven thinking of his lovely garden he could see through the windows, the familiar objects in his home and his "friends" (the housekeeper and me) were there, too. From then on he was eager to make the journey. I wrote down some of the praise of God he spoke that morning. Unfortunately, the last day was a very hard one and he had a very severe pain above the right side of his
forehead about 5 P.M. The doctor came about noon and again before the end, so we know that everything possible was done. Dad kept his back straight and he had lovely skin. The undertaker said he had the body of a man 65 or 70. He was 94 years, 7 mos. 22 days.
The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Thomas2, Thomas1 ) was born 14 November 1855 in Brunswick, Maine; married, first, Mary Etta Hall, daughter of Alfred Hall and Esther Chapel Widger, on 19 September 1884 in Olympia, Washington; married, second, Sarah Stanwood Holman Minot, known as Sadie, daughter of John Bailey Holman and Elizabeth A. Chase, on 2 September 1926 in Brunswick, Maine, by the Rev. Andrew Young, Pastor, United Baptist Church of Topsham. Benjamin and Sadie Holman were married at the home of the bride's step-daughter Mary and her husband George Ridley. He died
6 July 1950 in Portland, Oregon, and is buried in Riverview
Cemetery there. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield worked for his father on Mere Point until he was 21, and then went to Boston and clerked at C.D.Cobb and Brothers, a large grocery store on Hanover and Union Streets. Al Mason, Dick Sealy and Bill Lee were also employed there. Late in 1877, or early in 1878, Al Mason went to Oregon on the maiden voyage of the steamer Oregon, which had been built in
Philadelphia for the San Francisco-to-Portland run. B.F. Skolfield with Dick Sealy, and Bill and Joe Lee left Boston by train for San Francisco on 18 March 1879. B.F. Skolfield and Dick Sealy arrived in Portland on the steamer Oregon on 1 April 1879. The Lees arrived later on the steamer Republic, but they did not remain long in the west. Mr. Skolfield worked until fall at the long-since burned Richmond House at Second and Couch Streets, and then for O.F. Siles and Company grocery on First and Yamhill Streets. Al Mason and Dick Sealy, who were working there, later purchased the grocery under the name of
Sealy Mason and Company, and Frank and John Sealy soon succeeded Dick Sealy in the firm. For several years, including 1886, Mr. Skolfield was with the Portland Post Office, first as a railway mail clerk and then as a delivery clerk, using his own horse and buggy to deliver mail in the northwest section of Portland. He then returned to the grocery business until 1904 when he
became business manager and bookkeeper of the North Pacific
Sanatorium for Doctor R. C. Coffey. In 1906 he and his older son, Frank Hall Skolfield, went into the contracting business and later started the Skolfield Fuel Company and
the Oregon Coal Company which they still owned and managed in 1946. On a trip to his old home in Maine in 1926 he married his boyhood sweetheart, Mrs. Sarah (Sadie) Holman Minot as his second wife. Until gas rationing began during the Second World War, he spent his summer vacations at his cottage on the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound and enjoyed fishing from a motor boat which he built when he was past eighty. He was always active, going to work daily,
and spent his spare time in his vegetable and flower gardens until January 1950. The following is a letter written to Stanton Storer Skolfield by Esther Skolfield Schmidt from San Mateo, California, 23 July 1950: B.F. Skolfield Dear Cousin Stanton: Dad passed away on July 6,1950 about 11:40 P.M. The doctor called it myocardial degeneration and said death was caused by another heart attack. Dad had been ill since January 17th when he had a severe pain between his shoulders near the back of his
neck. I arrived Jan. 28 and after complications including
severe pains in his knees and muscle spasms in his legs
from arthritis, he got well enough to sit up in a chair and
to walk a few steps daily. Then a clot in the large vein behind his right knee caused the leg to swell and kept him in bed for 6 weeks. Meanwhile we moved him downstairs and every improvement didn't last long. He was so patient, so eager to get well that he cooperated beautifully and was most grateful for all we did. I was glad I was able to be with him and strong enough to take care of him - 24 hour nursing duty - but we had help with the housework all but 3 wks. and a fine, very kind doctor. Saturday before he
passed away, Dad awoke on a golden sunny morning thinking he was in Heaven thinking of his lovely garden he could see through the windows, the familiar objects in his home and his "friends" (the housekeeper and me) were there, too. From then on he was eager to make the journey. I wrote down some of the praise of God he spoke that morning. Unfortunately, the last day was a very hard one and he had a very severe pain above the right side of his
forehead about 5 P.M. The doctor came about noon and again before the end, so we know that everything possible was done. Dad kept his back straight and he had lovely skin. The undertaker said he had the body of a man 65 or 70. He was 94 years, 7 mos. 22 days.
The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield (Benjamin4, Jacob3,
Thomas2, Thomas1 ) was born 14 November 1855 in Brunswick, Maine; married, first, Mary Etta Hall, daughter of Alfred Hall and Esther Chapel Widger, on 19 September 1884 in Olympia, Washington; married, second, Sarah Stanwood Holman Minot, known as Sadie, daughter of John Bailey Holman and Elizabeth A. Chase, on 2 September 1926 in Brunswick, Maine, by the Rev. Andrew Young, Pastor, United Baptist Church of Topsham. Benjamin and Sadie Holman were married at the home of the bride's step-daughter Mary and her husband George Ridley. He died
6 July 1950 in Portland, Oregon, and is buried in Riverview
Cemetery there. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield worked for his father on Mere Point until he was 21, and then went to Boston and clerked at C.D.Cobb and Brothers, a large grocery store on Hanover and Union Streets. Al Mason, Dick Sealy and Bill Lee were also employed there. Late in 1877, or early in 1878, Al Mason went to Oregon on the maiden voyage of the steamer Oregon, which had been built in
Philadelphia for the San Francisco-to-Portland run. B.F. Skolfield with Dick Sealy, and Bill and Joe Lee left Boston by train for San Francisco on 18 March 1879. B.F. Skolfield and Dick Sealy arrived in Portland on the steamer Oregon on 1 April 1879. The Lees arrived later on the steamer Republic, but they did not remain long in the west. Mr. Skolfield worked until fall at the long-since burned Richmond House at Second and Couch Streets, and then for O.F. Siles and Company grocery on First and Yamhill Streets. Al Mason and Dick Sealy, who were working there, later purchased the grocery under the name of
Sealy Mason and Company, and Frank and John Sealy soon succeeded Dick Sealy in the firm. For several years, including 1886, Mr. Skolfield was with the Portland Post Office, first as a railway mail clerk and then as a delivery clerk, using his own horse and buggy to deliver mail in the northwest section of Portland. He then returned to the grocery business until 1904 when he
became business manager and bookkeeper of the North Pacific
Sanatorium for Doctor R. C. Coffey. In 1906 he and his older son, Frank Hall Skolfield, went into the contracting business and later started the Skolfield Fuel Company and
the Oregon Coal Company which they still owned and managed in 1946. On a trip to his old home in Maine in 1926 he married his boyhood sweetheart, Mrs. Sarah (Sadie) Holman Minot as his second wife. Until gas rationing began during the Second World War, he spent his summer vacations at his cottage on the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound and enjoyed fishing from a motor boat which he built when he was past eighty. He was always active, going to work daily,
and spent his spare time in his vegetable and flower gardens until January 1950. The following is a letter written to Stanton Storer Skolfield by Esther Skolfield Schmidt from San Mateo, California, 23 July 1950: B.F. Skolfield Dear Cousin Stanton: Dad passed away on July 6,1950 about 11:40 P.M. The doctor called it myocardial degeneration and said death was caused by another heart attack. Dad had been ill since January 17th when he had a severe pain between his shoulders near the back of his
neck. I arrived Jan. 28 and after complications including
severe pains in his knees and muscle spasms in his legs
from arthritis, he got well enough to sit up in a chair and
to walk a few steps daily. Then a clot in the large vein behind his right knee caused the leg to swell and kept him in bed for 6 weeks. Meanwhile we moved him downstairs and every improvement didn't last long. He was so patient, so eager to get well that he cooperated beautifully and was most grateful for all we did. I was glad I was able to be with him and strong enough to take care of him - 24 hour nursing duty - but we had help with the housework all but 3 wks. and a fine, very kind doctor. Saturday before he
passed away, Dad awoke on a golden sunny morning thinking he was in Heaven thinking of his lovely garden he could see through the windows, the familiar objects in his home and his "friends" (the housekeeper and me) were there, too. From then on he was eager to make the journey. I wrote down some of the praise of God he spoke that morning. Unfortunately, the last day was a very hard one and he had a very severe pain above the right side of his
forehead about 5 P.M. The doctor came about noon and again before the end, so we know that everything possible was done. Dad kept his back straight and he had lovely skin. The undertaker said he had the body of a man 65 or 70. He was 94 years, 7 mos. 22 days.
The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Thomas2, Thomas1 ) was born 14 November 1855 in Brunswick, Maine; married, first, Mary Etta Hall, daughter of Alfred Hall and Esther Chapel Widger, on 19 September 1884 in Olympia, Washington; married, second, Sarah Stanwood Holman Minot, known as Sadie, daughter of John Bailey Holman and Elizabeth A. Chase, on 2 September 1926 in Brunswick, Maine, by the Rev. Andrew Young, Pastor, United Baptist Church of Topsham. Benjamin and Sadie Holman were married at the home of the bride's step-daughter Mary and her husband George Ridley. He died
6 July 1950 in Portland, Oregon, and is buried in Riverview
Cemetery there. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield worked for his father on Mere Point until he was 21, and then went to Boston and clerked at C.D.Cobb and Brothers, a large grocery store on Hanover and Union Streets. Al Mason, Dick Sealy and Bill Lee were also employed there. Late in 1877, or early in 1878, Al Mason went to Oregon on the maiden voyage of the steamer Oregon, which had been built in
Philadelphia for the San Francisco-to-Portland run. B.F. Skolfield with Dick Sealy, and Bill and Joe Lee left Boston by train for San Francisco on 18 March 1879. B.F. Skolfield and Dick Sealy arrived in Portland on the steamer Oregon on 1 April 1879. The Lees arrived later on the steamer Republic, but they did not remain long in the west. Mr. Skolfield worked until fall at the long-since burned Richmond House at Second and Couch Streets, and then for O.F. Siles and Company grocery on First and Yamhill Streets. Al Mason and Dick Sealy, who were working there, later purchased the grocery under the name of
Sealy Mason and Company, and Frank and John Sealy soon succeeded Dick Sealy in the firm. For several years, including 1886, Mr. Skolfield was with the Portland Post Office, first as a railway mail clerk and then as a delivery clerk, using his own horse and buggy to deliver mail in the northwest section of Portland. He then returned to the grocery business until 1904 when he
became business manager and bookkeeper of the North Pacific
Sanatorium for Doctor R. C. Coffey. In 1906 he and his older son, Frank Hall Skolfield, went into the contracting business and later started the Skolfield Fuel Company and
the Oregon Coal Company which they still owned and managed in 1946. On a trip to his old home in Maine in 1926 he married his boyhood sweetheart, Mrs. Sarah (Sadie) Holman Minot as his second wife. Until gas rationing began during the Second World War, he spent his summer vacations at his cottage on the Hall Donation Claim on Puget Sound and enjoyed fishing from a motor boat which he built when he was past eighty. He was always active, going to work daily,
and spent his spare time in his vegetable and flower gardens until January 1950. The following is a letter written to Stanton Storer Skolfield by Esther Skolfield Schmidt from San Mateo, California, 23 July 1950: B.F. Skolfield Dear Cousin Stanton: Dad passed away on July 6,1950 about 11:40 P.M. The doctor called it myocardial degeneration and said death was caused by another heart attack. Dad had been ill since January 17th when he had a severe pain between his shoulders near the back of his
neck. I arrived Jan. 28 and after complications including
severe pains in his knees and muscle spasms in his legs
from arthritis, he got well enough to sit up in a chair and
to walk a few steps daily. Then a clot in the large vein behind his right knee caused the leg to swell and kept him in bed for 6 weeks. Meanwhile we moved him downstairs and every improvement didn't last long. He was so patient, so eager to get well that he cooperated beautifully and was most grateful for all we did. I was glad I was able to be with him and strong enough to take care of him - 24 hour nursing duty - but we had help with the housework all but 3 wks. and a fine, very kind doctor. Saturday before he
passed away, Dad awoke on a golden sunny morning thinking he was in Heaven thinking of his lovely garden he could see through the windows, the familiar objects in his home and his "friends" (the housekeeper and me) were there, too. From then on he was eager to make the journey. I wrote down some of the praise of God he spoke that morning. Unfortunately, the last day was a very hard one and he had a very severe pain above the right side of his
forehead about 5 P.M. The doctor came about noon and again before the end, so we know that everything possible was done. Dad kept his back straight and he had lovely skin. The undertaker said he had the body of a man 65 or 70. He was 94 years, 7 mos. 22 days.
The children of Benjamin Franklin5 Skolfield and Mary Etta Hall, born in Portland, Oregon,
were:
i. Frank Hall6 Skolfield was born 9 January 1886; married
Flora Lucile Deaton.
ii. Esther May Skolfield was born 25 October 1888; married
Carl Louis August Schmidt.
iii. William King Skolfield was born 1 April 1891; married,
first, Dorothy Margaret Robinson; married, second, Betty
May Ellis.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
