John “Jack” Singleton (1867 - 1949)
Jack Singleton was born in Iowa and his family moved to Salem, Oregon in 1880. He and his brothers graduated from Willamette University, Jack in civil engineering and brothers Harry and Eben in business accounting. Jack worked as a surveyor for the railroad until the depression hit. He married Emma Royal, the daughter of a fire and brimstone preacher, and they had a daughter in 1895. With news of the Klondike strike, Harry and Eben travelled north on the Topeka. Eban got merchant work at Fort Cudahy, at the mouth of the Fortymile River, and Harry returned to Seattle to supply goods to his brother.1)
Jack joined Eben around 1897 and staked claims on Gold Bottom Creek with a partner. Jack and Emma divorced in 1902, and Eben returned south in 1904. Jack remained in the Klondike through the 1910 census and he was in Alaska by 1912.2)