In my quest to find out more about W.L. Skidmore, Architect I have discovered that he is NOT related to Skidmore Construction . I spent time with Richard "Dick" Skidmore and he founded Skidmore Construction more that 50 years ago. He directed me to his brother Bill "William" Skidmore who lives in Brigham City. Bill is a geneologist and knew that his grand father William Lobark Skidmore had a son named William Lorenzo "Lonnie" Skidmore in his old age.Lobark was a polygamist that had two wives and 18 children; Lonnie is the half brother of Dick and Bill's dad. Unfortunately Bill stated that he doesn't know much about that side of the family but he did offer two tidbits
1. Jay (?) Skidmore was a Sociology professor here on campus and was the son of Lonnie. Jay's wife Hannah Jean might still be alive though remarried.
2. He would look up that side of the family and get in contact with me if anymore information was forthcoming.
Dick did mention that there was a Skidmore architectural firm in L.A. and Bill mentioned one in Chicago. Leads.....
I am going to follow up on the LA and Chicago and let y'all know.
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Just a further note..I contacted a Mike Skidmore http://www.skidmorearchitecture.com/ who is an architect in Washington. He said his Great Grandpa was named Bill Skidmore and he gave me his dad's phone number to do some checking. I'm waiting for a call back!
ReplyDeleteThis is very cool. When you straighten out this Skidmore business, I definitely want to post some of it.
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