Bio: Single, Benjamin (1881)
 

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Surnames: Single, Boswell, Thayer

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 567

BENJAMIN SINGLE, proprietor saw mills on the Little Rib River, four miles west of Wausau. The first mill was erected in 1844, it being run by water. In 1851 they abandoned that mill and built a steam saw mill near by, which they operated about twenty years, when it burned. Their present saw mill was erected in the Summer of 1873, the capacity of which is 40,000 in twelve hours. They employ thirty-five men. Mr. Single settled in Milwaukee in June, 1836, and lived there and in that vicinity three years, and followed the carpenter and joiner trade, then he went to Grand Rapids, arriving in the Winter of 1839. There he engaged in lumbering, which he followed until the Summer of 1845, at which time he settled in his present location, except 1850 and 1851, when he resided in St. Louis, Mo. He was born in Bayford, Hertfordshire, England, Aug. 20, 1820. He was married in Wausau, Aug. 23, 1849, to Jane S. Boswell, who was born in London, England, May 28, 1827. They have one daughter, Rozetta W., now Mrs. Lyman W. Thayer.