JOHN GIFFORD SKELTON: M. D.,
Of Richmond, Virginia, son of Ennion W. Skelton, of Powhatan county,
Virginia, and Catharine W. Skelton, nee Gifford, was born in Powhatan
county, on April 29, 1815. He received his literary and classical education
at private schools and in the University of Virginia; was a student
of medicine in the office of Prof. George B. Wood, of Philadelphia,
and in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating
thence with degree of M. D., in April, 1838. Until 1866 he was
located and engaged in general practice of medicine in Powhatan county,
then removed to Richmond.
Dr. Skelton is a member of the Virginia State Medical Society, of the
Richmond Academy of Medicine; and of the Richmond Medical and Surgical
Society. He has for several years associated with the Richmond
Medical College, in its summer sessions, and lectured on physiology, and
on obstetrics and diseases of women and children.
The father of Dr. Skelton, Dr. Ennion W. Skelton, was born in Princeton,
New Jersey, September 12, 1779, lived at Genito, Powhatan county,
Virginia, after 1802, practiced medicine until his death, on November 4,
1836. He was a son of Josiah Skelton, of Princeton, who came to Powhatan
county and there died in 1821, aged eighty years, and who was a
son of John Skelton, Esq., who resided near Princeton during the reign
of George III., of England. Catharine W. Gifford, mother of Dr. J. G.
Skelton, was born in Princeton also, on March 2, 1780, married Dr. E.
W. Skelton in 1803, and resided in Powhatan county, Virginia, until
her death, January 16, 1869. In 1841, Dr. John Gifford Skelton married
Charlotte F., daughter of Peyton Randolph, Esq., of Richmond;
she died in 1843. In 1846 he married Marianne O., daughter of B. L.
Meade, Esq., of Richmond; she died in 1869.
