Descendants of Otis Skinner
Generation No. 1
1. OTIS3 SKINNER (CHARLES A.2, WARREN1)1 was
born June 28, 1858 in Cambridge, Massachusetts2,3,4, and died
19425. He married LUCY MAUD DURBIN6 April 21, 1896 in Christ Church, Corning, New York7,
daughter of WILLIAM DURBIN
and MISSOURI PEW. She was born 1872 in Missouri8,9,
and died 193610.
Notes for OTIS SKINNER:
COMSTOCK,
NANETTE, b. Albany, N. Y., July 17, 1868; d. New York City,
June 24, 1942; m. Frank Burbeck. Nanette Comstock was a famous actress in her
day, and many accounts of her successes appear in contemporary papers and
magazines. She made her first London appearance in 1895, and toured the United
States in 1898 with Otis Skinner. "Who's Who in the Theatre"
gives her date of birth as 1873, which is incorrect...
“A History
and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America.”1949. John Adams Comstock, Del
Mar, California. Privately printed for the author by The Commonwealth Press
Inc., Los Angeles, California.
More About OTIS SKINNER:
Description:
“gay, intelligent, kind, very handsome”11
Miscellaneous: 1924, Autobiography – “Footlights and Spotlights;
recollections of my life on the stage”.12
Occupation 1:
performed in theatre13
Occupation 2:
Bet. 1892 - 1895, leading man with Helena Modjeska14,15
More About LUCY MAUD DURBIN:
Description:
delicate skin, olive-brown eyes16
Education:
Wolf Hall, Denver Colorado - finishing school17
Occupation 1:
Bet. 1893 - 1895, acting job in New York with Helena Modjeska18
Occupation 2:
Bet. 1895 - 1901, leading lady in Otis Skinner's theatre troupe20
Occupation 3:
quit acting after the birth of Cornelia in 190119
Residence 1:
1880, Moberly, Randolph County, Missouri22
Residence 2: 1894, summer at Helena Modjeska's home, Arden, near Santa
Anna, California21
Child of OTIS SKINNER
and LUCY DURBIN
is:
i. CORNELIA OTIS4 SKINNER23, b. May 30, 1901, Chicago,
Illinois24; d. July 09, 1979, New York City, New York County,
New York25; m. ALDEN S. BLODGET26.
Notes
for CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER:
Skinner,
Cornelia Otis (1901-79), U.S. actress, monologist, and writer, born in Chicago,
Ill.; daughter of Otis Skinner; studied in Paris; married Alden S. Blodget
('The Wives of Henry VIII'; 'Edna, His Wife'; 'Family Circle'; 'Nuts in May';
'Bottoms Up!'; 'The Ape in Me'; 'Madame Sarah'; 'Our Hearts Were Young and
Gay'; 'Life with Lindsay and Crouse').
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Excerpted
from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
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Skinner,
Cornelia Otis (1901-1979), American actor and writer, acclaimed for her
performances of dramatic monologues that she wrote herself. She was born in
Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Shakespearean actor and author Otis Skinner.
She studied acting with French actor, director, and critic Jacques Copeau and
in 1921 made her debut in Chicago. With Emily Kimbrough she wrote Our Hearts
Were Young and Gay (1942), a travel memoir. She collaborated with Samuel Taylor
on the play The Pleasure of His Company, in which she starred (1958-1960).
Encarta® Online Deluxe
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D.205
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER PAPERS (1926-1929)
Cornelia
Otis Skinner (1899-1979) was born in Chicago, the daughter of the actor Otis
Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending Bryn Mawr College
(1918-1919), and studying theatre at The Sorbonne in Paris, France, she began
her career on the stage in 1921. She appeared in several plays before embarking
on a tour of the United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of
short character sketches she herself wrote.
The
letters in this collection were written by Cornelia Otis Skinner to the manager
of her 1926-1929 tour, James Burton Pond, and his assistant, Viva Smith. James
Burton Pond (1889-1961), head of the Pond Lecture Bureau in New York City,
managed lecture tours of the United States by many prominent American and
British speakers and performers. The letters, which are mostly undated, concern
travel arrangements, bookings, expenses, and other matters related to the life
of a touring actress. Also in the collection is a letter from Cornelia Otis
Skinner's mother to Mr. Pond, and two printed items advertising the tour.
Purchased
from In Our Time, catalogue 197, #257. January 28, 1987. Bowerman Fund.
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Folder
1: Dated correspondence, 1926-1929 (24 letters)
Folder
2: Undated correspondence (30 letters)
Folder
3: Printed advertising (2 items)
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For
more information about this collection, contact the Department of Rare Books
and Special Collections, University of Rochester Library.
More
About CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER:
Baptism:
1901, by grandfather, Charles Skinner, in new England27
Miscellaneous
1: 1948, Autobiography – “Family Circle”28
Miscellaneous
2: nicknamed Bobs by family; Grandfather Skinner refused to call her Cornelia29
Endnotes
1. Cevera
Burchard Peecher Letter to Peggy Smith, Nov. 18, 1975.
2. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston).
3. Winter,
William, The American Stage of To-day,
(1910. The American Stage of
To-day. E. F. Collier and Sons,
Publishers.).
4.
Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed., Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American
Biography of the Nineteenth Century,
(1902, American Publisher's Association, Chicago, IL).
5. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston).
6. Cevera
Burchard Peecher Letter to Peggy Smith, Nov. 18, 1975.
7. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 104.
8. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston).
9. 1880
Missouri Census, Randolph County, Moberly, SD 5, ED 108, p. 37 line 15.
10. Skinner, Cornelia
Otis, Family Circle, (1948,
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston).
11. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 102.
12. Skinner,
Otis, 1858-1942, Footlights and spotlights, recollections of my life on the
stage, (1924, The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis.).
13. Comstock,
John Adams, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (1949,
Privately printed for the author by The Commonwealth Press Inc., Los
Angeles, California.).
14. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 99.
15.
Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed., Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of
American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, (1902, American Publisher's Association, Chicago, IL), p. xcvii.
16. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 18.
17. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston).
18. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle, (1948,
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 26-.
19. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 131.
20. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 42-.
21. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 34-35.
22. 1880
Missouri Census, Randolph County, Moberly.
23. Cevera
Burchard Peecher Letter to Peggy Smith, Nov. 18, 1975.
24. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 115.
25. Letter
from Meldora Skinner, Jan. 2001.
26. Compton's
Interactive Encyclopedia, Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Compton's NewMedia, Inc.
27. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 118.
28. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston).
29. Skinner,
Cornelia Otis, Family Circle,
(1948, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston), p. 119.
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