Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. More specifications for house. Walter Woodward and his friends are pushing the improvement of the Thomas tract vigorously. They are making streets and building sewers at a great rate. Mr. Brecht, one of the party, is said to be ready to begin building. Jay Smith has not begun yet. I attended Judge Klein’s funeral today. The doctor’s certificate said cancer [was the cause of death]. I do not think he knew this., 1910 Aug 25

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Skinker family correspondence, the bulk of which is between Thomas K. Skinker and his wife, Bertha Rives Skinker. The collection also contains several folders of tax receipts of Thomas Skinker dated 1839-1886. This finding aid was compiled by keying in the document descriptions on the folder covers. These document descriptions were presumably written by a Missouri Historical Society archivist soon after the collection was purchased in 1978.