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CHRISTIAN SINGLE, proprietor Georgetown Mills, P. O. Georgetown, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, January 2, 1842. His parents were Gotlieb and Katrina (Scherle) Single, both natives of Wurtemberg. The father worked in a salt factory thirty-two years, and died in Germany, April 21, 1874. Mrs. Single departed this life July 25, 1855. They were the parents of seven children, one daughter and six sons, four of whom are living. Mr. Single received but a limited education in Germany, and early learned the miller’s trade. He came to America February 28, 1865, and at Cincinnati joined his brother John, who had come over a year previous. Mr. Single was first employed in Fagan’s Mill on Locke street, where he remained eleven months. He then went to Lexington, Ky., and was there engaged in milling, partly for himself, for some time. He subsequently came to Georgetown, and, with John Armleder, purchased the “old John Thompson Mill,” in Lewis Township, on White Oak Creek. Two years and a half later the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Single rented the mill for one year. At the expiration of this time, he came to Georgetown and built the Georgetown Mills (in 1873). These mills are built on the site of the old tannery formerly owned and worked by Jesse Grant, father of Gen. Grant. Mr. Single has met with very good success in his milling operations, and is considered one of Georgetown’s best citizens. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., and Confidence Lodge, 307, I. O. O. F. Politically, Mr. Single is Democratic, but rather liberal in his views. He has been Councilman of the village four years, and in the spring of 1882, was elected a member of the Board of Education. Mr. Single has a very neat frame residence near his mill, located on an excavation of a hill side. He was married September 16, 1866, to Margaret Effenigere, also a native of Wurtemberg. They had two children, one living — Julia. Mrs. Single and her daughter are members of the Catholic Church.