John C. Singletary
John C. Singletary, farmer and attorney at law, Streetsboro, was born in Aurora Township, this county, December 19, 1810, son of John C. and Harriet (Powers) Singletary, former a native of Worcester, Mass., and latter of Middletown, Conn., and who were parents of live children: Anthony P., deceased; John C.; Cyrus, deceased; Earl, deceased, and Charles, deceased. The parents settled and took up a farm of fifty acres in Aurora Township, this county, in 1808, which they cleared, improved and kept adding to until 1828, when they located in Streetsboro on the property now occupied by our subject, where they kept a public house for many years and at the same time engaged in farming. John C. Singletary, Sr., was the first Postmaster at Streetsboro this county, an office he held for several years. He died in 1851 at the age of sixty-seven. Our subject was reared in his native township and educated in Western Reserve College at Hudson. He afterward studied law with his uncle, Gregory Powers, of Akron, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in 1835, though he has never practiced his profession to any extent. He was married August 11, 1845, to Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Mills) Carter, natives of Ireland, who settled in Boston (now in Summit County) in 1824. By this union there were eight children: Cyrus C, deceased; Theodore, deceased; Zachary T., deceased; Harriet E.; Mary A.; Theodora (the last two mentioned are graduates of the Western Reserve College, and at present teaching in the high school at Denver, Colo.); Delia, deceased, and Kate F. Mr. Singletary located in Akron, Ohio, in 1835, and was elected the second and third Mayor of that city. The principal part of his life, however, has been spent in Streetsboro, this county, where he has been engaged in farming. In politics he is a Republican and Prohibitionist. In religion he and hie family are Methodists.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885