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Skinner (ROBERT P an American consular)

ROBERT P., an American consular officer, born in Massillon, Ohio, in 1866. He was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, and from 1886 to 1897 he was owner and editor of the "Evening Independent," Massillon, Ohio.

From 1897 to 1908 he was Consul at Marseilles, France; from 1908 to 1914, Consul General at Hamburg, and since July, 1914, Consul General at London, England.

In 1903 he was appointed commissioner to establish relations and to negotiate a treaty between the United States and Ethiopia, and in 1912 he was commissioned to adjust the claims of foreign creditors against the republic of Liberia.

He wrote "Abyssinia of Today" (1906).