USMA Class of 1904. Cullum No. 4266.
He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania and graduated from Westchester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. He later graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1904 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. On August 26, 1904, he married his first wife, Anna McCullough, at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. His marriage violated the rule forbidding an officer to marry before attaining the rank of First Lieutenant and after the wedding he reported to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had to leave his wife behind. His first wife died on June 2, 1914. On June 30, 1915, he married Edna E. Smith, who was a nurse at the City Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. From 1913 to 1917, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology at West Point where he taught military specialties, artillery and chemical warfare. His students included former President Ike Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General James F. Van Fleet and General Mark Clark. During World War I he was an artillery commander in Europe. In the 1930s he was stationed in the District of Columbia and in 1934, he retired due to a physical disability. After his retirement he lived in St. Petersburg, Florida during the winter and in Cape Elizabeth, Maine during the summer. His former home in Cape Elizabeth, known as Beckett’s Castle, is a cottage with a gable roof and is two stories with a square three story tower. It was built in 1871 by Sylvester Blackmore Beckett (1812-1882), a Portland journalist and writer, attorney and poet and is located at 7 Singles Road. Colonel Singles bought the cottage when he was stationed at Fort Williams in Maine which was deactivated in 1963. In 1974, the cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. On November 26, 1963, Colonel Singles died at the age of 85 years of a stroke at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Survivors included two sons, Colonel Gordon Singles, United States Army of 912 West Braddock Road in Alexandria, Virginia and Walter Singles Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; one daughter, Mrs. Edna S. Thomas of Cape Elizabeth, Maine and two grandsons, Gordon C. Singles and Walter S. Thomas. His second wife, Edna Smith Singles died in 1957. Services were held in Portland, Maine. Burial was in West Point in New York.
Sources: Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, July 6, 1915; The Evening Star, Friday, November 29, 1963 and Saturday, November 30, 1963 and Boston Record American, Friday, November 29, 1963, National Register of Historic Places database.
He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania and graduated from Westchester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. He later graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1904 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. On August 26, 1904, he married his first wife, Anna McCullough, at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. His marriage violated the rule forbidding an officer to marry before attaining the rank of First Lieutenant and after the wedding he reported to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had to leave his wife behind. His first wife died on June 2, 1914. On June 30, 1915, he married Edna E. Smith, who was a nurse at the City Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. From 1913 to 1917, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology at West Point where he taught military specialties, artillery and chemical warfare. His students included former President Ike Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General James F. Van Fleet and General Mark Clark. During World War I he was an artillery commander in Europe. In the 1930s he was stationed in the District of Columbia and in 1934, he retired due to a physical disability. After his retirement he lived in St. Petersburg, Florida during the winter and in Cape Elizabeth, Maine during the summer. His former home in Cape Elizabeth, known as Beckett’s Castle, is a cottage with a gable roof and is two stories with a square three story tower. It was built in 1871 by Sylvester Blackmore Beckett (1812-1882), a Portland journalist and writer, attorney and poet and is located at 7 Singles Road. Colonel Singles bought the cottage when he was stationed at Fort Williams in Maine which was deactivated in 1963. In 1974, the cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. On November 26, 1963, Colonel Singles died at the age of 85 years of a stroke at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Survivors included two sons, Colonel Gordon Singles, United States Army of 912 West Braddock Road in Alexandria, Virginia and Walter Singles Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; one daughter, Mrs. Edna S. Thomas of Cape Elizabeth, Maine and two grandsons, Gordon C. Singles and Walter S. Thomas. His second wife, Edna Smith Singles died in 1957. Services were held in Portland, Maine. Burial was in West Point in New York.
Sources: Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, July 6, 1915; The Evening Star, Friday, November 29, 1963 and Saturday, November 30, 1963 and Boston Record American, Friday, November 29, 1963, National Register of Historic Places database.
USMA Class of 1904. Cullum No. 4266.
He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania and graduated from Westchester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. He later graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1904 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. On August 26, 1904, he married his first wife, Anna McCullough, at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. His marriage violated the rule forbidding an officer to marry before attaining the rank of First Lieutenant and after the wedding he reported to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had to leave his wife behind. His first wife died on June 2, 1914. On June 30, 1915, he married Edna E. Smith, who was a nurse at the City Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. From 1913 to 1917, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology at West Point where he taught military specialties, artillery and chemical warfare. His students included former President Ike Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General James F. Van Fleet and General Mark Clark. During World War I he was an artillery commander in Europe. In the 1930s he was stationed in the District of Columbia and in 1934, he retired due to a physical disability. After his retirement he lived in St. Petersburg, Florida during the winter and in Cape Elizabeth, Maine during the summer. His former home in Cape Elizabeth, known as Beckett’s Castle, is a cottage with a gable roof and is two stories with a square three story tower. It was built in 1871 by Sylvester Blackmore Beckett (1812-1882), a Portland journalist and writer, attorney and poet and is located at 7 Singles Road. Colonel Singles bought the cottage when he was stationed at Fort Williams in Maine which was deactivated in 1963. In 1974, the cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. On November 26, 1963, Colonel Singles died at the age of 85 years of a stroke at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Survivors included two sons, Colonel Gordon Singles, United States Army of 912 West Braddock Road in Alexandria, Virginia and Walter Singles Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; one daughter, Mrs. Edna S. Thomas of Cape Elizabeth, Maine and two grandsons, Gordon C. Singles and Walter S. Thomas. His second wife, Edna Smith Singles died in 1957. Services were held in Portland, Maine. Burial was in West Point in New York.
Sources: Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, July 6, 1915; The Evening Star, Friday, November 29, 1963 and Saturday, November 30, 1963 and Boston Record American, Friday, November 29, 1963, National Register of Historic Places database.
He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania and graduated from Westchester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. He later graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1904 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. On August 26, 1904, he married his first wife, Anna McCullough, at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. His marriage violated the rule forbidding an officer to marry before attaining the rank of First Lieutenant and after the wedding he reported to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had to leave his wife behind. His first wife died on June 2, 1914. On June 30, 1915, he married Edna E. Smith, who was a nurse at the City Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. From 1913 to 1917, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology at West Point where he taught military specialties, artillery and chemical warfare. His students included former President Ike Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General James F. Van Fleet and General Mark Clark. During World War I he was an artillery commander in Europe. In the 1930s he was stationed in the District of Columbia and in 1934, he retired due to a physical disability. After his retirement he lived in St. Petersburg, Florida during the winter and in Cape Elizabeth, Maine during the summer. His former home in Cape Elizabeth, known as Beckett’s Castle, is a cottage with a gable roof and is two stories with a square three story tower. It was built in 1871 by Sylvester Blackmore Beckett (1812-1882), a Portland journalist and writer, attorney and poet and is located at 7 Singles Road. Colonel Singles bought the cottage when he was stationed at Fort Williams in Maine which was deactivated in 1963. In 1974, the cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. On November 26, 1963, Colonel Singles died at the age of 85 years of a stroke at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Survivors included two sons, Colonel Gordon Singles, United States Army of 912 West Braddock Road in Alexandria, Virginia and Walter Singles Jr. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; one daughter, Mrs. Edna S. Thomas of Cape Elizabeth, Maine and two grandsons, Gordon C. Singles and Walter S. Thomas. His second wife, Edna Smith Singles died in 1957. Services were held in Portland, Maine. Burial was in West Point in New York.
Sources: Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, July 6, 1915; The Evening Star, Friday, November 29, 1963 and Saturday, November 30, 1963 and Boston Record American, Friday, November 29, 1963, National Register of Historic Places database.
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