Chauncey Fitch Skilling
Chauncey Fitch Skilling (December 7, 1868 – February 14, 1945) was an architect from Los Angeles, who was also a member of that city's school board and of its city council. Personal Skilling was born on December 7, 1868 in Manchester, Illinois, the son of Josiah Hamilton Skilling of Ireland and Margaret Lucy Thompson of Athens, Ohio. His brothers were Edward H., William T. and Robert P. Coming to Los Angeles in 1886, he attended Los Angeles State Normal School and the University of Southern California (1892), followed by a year at a business college (1893). He was a Presbyterian and a Republican. Residing at 1051 S. Lucerne Boulevard, he died of pneumonia at the age of 78 on February 14, 1945. Skilling was survived by brothers William T. of San Diego, California, and Robert P. of Newark, New Jersey. Chief structural engineer of the World Trade Center, John Skilling, was a relative, the grandson of his brother Edward. Architecture His first recorded job was as a draftsman around 1892–94. Before going into business for himself as an architect, he was a partner of John C. W. Austin and later of Otto Neher. Skilling "designed and supervised construction of Immanuel