The Biographical Dictionary of America/Skinner, Otis Ainsworth

SKINNER, Otis Ainsworth, author, was born in Royalton, Vt., July 3, 1807. He joined the ministry of the Universalist society in 1826, and was pastor at Baltimore, 1831–36; Haverhill, 1836–37; Boston, 1836–46, and New York city, 1846–49. He returned to Boston in 1849, and in 1857 removed to Elgin, Ill. He was president of Lombard university, Galesburg, Ill., 1857–59; and pastor at Joliet, Ill., 1859–61. Lombard conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D., 1858. He edited the Southeast Pioneer. 1831–36; the Gospel Sun, 1836–37, and the Universalist Miscellany, 1844–49; and is the author of: Universalism Illustrated and Defended (1839); Miller's Theory Exploded (1840); Letters on Revivals (1842); Prayer Book for Family Worship (1843); Letters on Moral Duties of Parents (1844); Lessons from the Death of the Young (1844); Reply to Hatfield (1847); Death of Daniel Webster (1852). He died in Napierville. Ill., Sept. 18, 1861.