BIO:  Charles Singer, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 182

CHARLES SINGER farmer, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, May 10, 1838, and came to America 
in 1851, landing in New York.  He came directly to Shrewsbury Township, where he engaged at 
farming.  His parents, Charles F. and Margaret (Stark) Singer, had a family of five children, 
when they landed here, and one was born in this country.  They remained in Shrewsbury Township, 
where the father died in 1875, aged sixty-seven years.  The mother is still living, being 
sixty-eight years old.  Charles Singer received his early education in Germany, and has 
acquired a good English education in this county.  At the age of twenty-eight years he 
commenced business for himself by purchasing a farm of seventy-two acres near the Maryland 
line, in Shrewsbury Township, from his father.  February 1, 1866, he was married, in Shrewsbury 
Township, to Magdalena Ziegler, daughter of Michael Ziegler, distiller and miller, of 
Shrewsbury Township.  They had six children, of whom three are dead:  Lillie Alice, Elizabeth 
M. and John P.  The living are James F., Annie Jane and Eli M.  The family are members of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Singer is a deacon.  He is also chaplain of the order 
of the P. of H. one of the organizers, and a director of the New Freedom Building Association, 
a director in the New Freedom Cemetery Association; was a school director and councilman for 
three years, and borough assessor for several terms.