On May 23, 1902, the Harrisburg Daily Independent reported that two high school students from McKeesport, PA had drowned in the Youghiogheny River. Six of…
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Stories about my Skewis ancestors
Harold Ely Merrick and Marion Elizabeth Skewis were married on July 30, 1927. The Pittsburgh newspaper reported all the details. “One of the fashionable weddings…
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Joseph Skewis’ rapid rise in the ranks at the Homestead Steel Mill might have come about partially thanks to his relationship with Charles L. Taylor.…
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Family legend always had it that Joseph Richard Skewis was recruited by Andrew Carnegie to emigrate from Scotland to work in the Homestead steel mill…
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After Marion Skewis graduated from Cornell University, she moved to Newark, Delaware to claim her promised job as a Dietitian at the Men’s College at…
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Marion and Harold got engaged in January of 1926, and were married in the summer of 1927. During that year, they traveled back and forth…
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Marion Elizabeth Skewis was the first in her family to go to college…and she had to pay for every dime on her own. Marion dated…
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