Born in Sheffield in about 1799, Ebenezer Skinner was apparently the son of John Skinner and his wife, Ann.  Like the latter, he was a scissors and steel pen manufacturer (though Ebenezer was first listed in 1837 as a victualler at the Sportsman, Bridgehouses).  From the mid-1840s, he worked and lived in Stanley Street in the Wicker.  The Census (1851) enumerated him as a lodger at the house of razor maker George Hammond, employing eight men.  He died at the residence of Wright Chadburn (Pittsville, Pitsmoor) on 19 September 1861, aged 62, and was buried in Burngreave in a dissenter’s grave.  Skinner left under £3,000.  Chadburn, an optician and cutlery dealer, was his executor.