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SKINNER, Ezekiel, clergyman, born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, 27 June, 1777; died in Greenport, L. I., 25 December, 1855. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but, abandoning his trade in 1797, he studied medicine, was licensed to practise in 1801, and settled at Granville, Massachusetts, as a physician, He was a deist, but, changing his views, he removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1807, and united with the Baptist church. He served in the war of 1812 as a surgeon, in 1819 was licensed to preach, and in 1822 was ordained pastor of the Baptist church in Ashford, Connecticut On the death of his son, Reverend Benjamin Rush Skinner, a missionary in Liberia, the father in 1834 went to replace him, and spent four years in that colony as its governor and as preacher'. After his return he resumed his pastoral duties and medical practice. He published a series of essays on the prophecies, in the "Christian Secretary" (1842).
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