Lucy Skidmore Scribner

Lucy Skidmore Scribner was the founder of Skidmore College.

She was born in on July 4, 1853 to Joseph Russell Skidmore , a coal merchant, and Lucy Ann Hawley . Lucys grandparents were Jeremiah and Judith Ludlam Skidmore and Irad and Sarah Holmes Hawley. In 1875 she married John Blair Scribner. The couple resided atEast 48th Street in New York for their marriage. In 1879, after justyears of marriage, Lucy was widowed when her husband died of pneumonia.

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