Minnie Ann Alice (Amelang) Skinner (1887 - 1969)

Minnie's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Skinner family tree.

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Minnie's Family

Christoph Wilhelm Franz Amelang

Hannah L. C. (Ploschentz) Amelang

William Embry Amelang John Gotlieb Amelang Cora Elizabeth (Amelang) Evans Mary Viola (Amelang) Brookshier-Weineke Minnie Ann Alice (Amelang) Skinner

Robert Edward Amelang Paul P Amelang Rosa Alvina (Amelang) Minor Martha Beatrice Beluah (Amelang) Skinner

Parents:

Christoph Wilhelm Franz Amelang

Feb 20, 1844 - Nov 29, 1911

Hannah L. C. (Ploschentz) Amelang

Mar 10, 1851 - Sep 22, 1924

Siblings:

Robert Edward Amelang

Aug 22, 1881 - Apr 8, 1956

William Embry Amelang

1874 - 1900

Paul P Amelang

Oct 10, 1876 - Feb 2, 1950

John Gotlieb Amelang

Jan 21, 1878 - Dec 5, 1963

Rosa Alvina (Amelang) Minor

Apr 2, 1883 - Apr 29, 1975

Cora Elizabeth (Amelang) Evans

Feb 26, 1885 - Jan 27, 1959

Martha Beatrice Beluah (Amelang) Skinner

May 13, 1887 - Feb 2, 1981

Mary Viola (Amelang) Brookshier-Weineke

1890 - May 14, 1950

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Minnie Ann Alice (Amelang) Skinner

Added: Jul 01, 2018

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In 1887, in the year that Minnie Ann Alice (Amelang) Skinner was born, on January 20th, the US Senate gave the US Navy the right to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oahu, a part of the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy was given direction to maintain "a coaling and repair station" at the harbor.

In 1899, at the age of only 12 years old, Minnie was alive when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

In 1920, Minnie was 33 years old when the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

In 1946, Minnie was 59 years old when pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published. It sold half a million copies in the first six months. Aside from the Bible, it became the best selling book of the 20th century. A generation of Baby Boomers were raised by the advice of Dr. Spock.

In 1969, in the year of Minnie Ann Alice (Amelang) Skinner's passing, in August, a previously planned small concert turned into a (free) more than 400,000 strong gathering of attendees and bands at Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York - now called Woodstock. Just some of the 32 acts: Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, Santana, The Band, and Sly and the Family Stone.